Billmon takes on Fineman's slick apologia for the administration. He catches something which totally slipped by me, that Fineman is somehow crediting Joe Wilson for the Bush I administration's decision to not go into Baghdad, and claiming that he forced a meek and mild Dick Cheney into obeying this policy.
As Billmon says, "The idea that Joe Wilson, charge’ d’affaires in Baghdad, made the decision not to march on Saddam's capital -- and that Dick Cheney, cabinet secretary, only "supported" that decision -- is one of those crackpot assertions that could only be made in the madhouse that is now the American media."
