First here’s a link to an article by Paul Krugman that speaks much truth
I love Frank Rich. It is sorta ironic that my mom turned me onto him, or maybe I did to her, but she would talk about that young theater critic and how amazingly perceptive he was. Think she would be proud of how that “young critic” turned out. In this week that doesn’t belong to Bush or Iraq but me and the people of New York, and all people who were personally affected by 9/11 which is all of us, he speaks not of 9/11 but 9/8/02, and I consider it my duty to reprint his article. Times Select articles are available for free to all people for two weeks
IT will be all 9/11 all the time this week, as the White House yet again synchronizes its drumbeating for the Iraq war with the anniversary of an attack that had nothing to do with Iraq. Ignore that fog and focus instead on another date whose anniversary passed yesterday without notice: Sept. 8, 2002. What happened on that Sunday five years ago is the Rosetta Stone for the administration’s latest scam. Read more…