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March 16 2006
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wo things happened last
week with serious conse-
quences for us all and, no,
I'm not talking about that Bachelor
guy breaking up with his final pick, or
who made it through the next round
of American Idol.
South Dakota's Gov. Michael Rounds
signed a law banning abortion unless
a pregnant woman's life is in jeopardy.
The law, a direct legal challenge to Roe
v. Wade, will go into effect in July. The
state would joins 62 countries in the
world, including Bangladesh, Egypt,
Indonesia and Iran, that
ban abortions in the same
way.
No matter what side of
the debate you fall on, it's
still baffling why some
believe that only God
should take life, unless that
life is on Death Row.
South Dakota has killed
14 criminals from 1877 to
1947, starting with Jack
McCall — who, as all fans
of the HBO series Deadwood will rec-
ognize — was hanged for shooting
Wild Bill Hickok when Deadwood was
still part of the Dakota Territory.
I'll be checking the papers weekly
to see when Gov. Rounds decides to
repeal the death penalty in his state
as well as the other 20 or so governors
and legislative bodies also thinking
of joining South Dakota in banning
abortions if the Supreme Court were
to overturn Roe. It's called continuity
of belief.
Iraq And A Hard Place
In the continuing and ever-expand-
ing War on Terror, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice told a congressional
hearing that because' of its nuclear
intentions and anti-Israel sentiments,
Iran is probably the No. 1 challenge to
the United States
"We may face no greater challenge
from a single country than from Iran,
whose policies are directed at develop-
ing a Middle East that would be 180
degrees different than the Middle East
we would like to see developed," Rice
is quoted by Reuters.
Here we are, still mired in Iraq, and
Secretary of State Rice is making com-
ments about Iran, the country that
was always the most threatening in
the region.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
who also appeared at the congres-
sional hearing to ask for $91 bil-
lion to pay for the wars in Iraq. and
Afghanistan, simply said if civil war in
Iraq breaks out, "have the Iraqi secu-
rity forces deal with it, to the extent -
they are able to."
U:S. soldiers training and arming
Iraqi security under the cloud of a
civil war is as logical as if Britain were
to have come to the-United States in
1859 to do the same for the armies of
Gen. Grant and Gen. Lee.
If only the Bush administration
would have listened to the
intelligence community a
few years ago instead of -
asking it for raw data.
Paul Pillar, former CIA
national intelligence offi-
cer from 2000 to 2005,
made a strong case in
the March/April issue of
Foreign Affairs for trans-
forming America's intelli-
gence community into an
organization similar to the
Federal Reserve Bank, untouchable to
the whims of political policymakers.
"If the entire body of official intel-
ligence analysis on Iraq had a policy
implication, it was to avoid war – or if
the war was going to be launched, to
prepare for a messy aftermath," wrote
Pillar, in charge of coordinating all
intelligence assessments regarding
Iraq. "What is most remarkable about
prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq is not
that it got things wrong and thereby
misled policymakers; it is that it
played such a small role in one of the
most important U.S. policy decisions
in decades:'
Congress, not the administration,
asked for the October 2002 National
Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's uncon-
ventional weapons systems, he wrote.
"The first request I received from any
administration policymaker for any
such assessment was not until a year
into the war."
What's done is done, and now we're
faced with a Vietnam-like mess of
which we have little control, and all we
can do is support our troops and wish
them home. E
Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is
hkirsbaumCa)thejewishnews.com .