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Whoever compiled this is… obsessive?

So, ABC is planning to air Part 2 of its now-infamous TV movie, “The Path to 9/11,” on Monday night, September 11, from 8 to 10 p.m. (Here’s background on the controversy surrounding the movie and its apparent anti-Clinton slant.)

But now it turns out that President Bush wants all the networks to give him live coverage for a speech from the Oval Office on Monday night at 9 p.m. Right in the middle of the scheduled movie time. (The talk will last 16-18 minutes and the White House says it “will not be political in nature.” Yeah, right.)

This could be a great opportunity for ABC to bow out and cancel the film entirely – shades of Charles Krauthammer and the Harriet Miers withdrawal.

Thank you, Thomas Friedman:

Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld told us we are in the fight of our lives against a new Islamic fascism, and let’s have an unprecedented wartime tax cut and shrink our armed forces. They told us we are in the fight of our lives against a new Islamic fascism, but let’s send just enough troops to topple Saddam — and never control Iraq’s borders, its ammo dumps or its looters. They told us we are in the fight of our lives against a new Islamic fascism, but rather than bring Democrats and Republicans together in a national unity war coalition, let’s use the war as a wedge issue to embarrass Democrats, frighten voters and win elections. They told us we are in the fight of our lives against a new Islamic fascism — which is financed by our own oil purchases — but let’s not do one serious thing about ending our oil addiction.

Donald Rumsfeld demonizes war critics as “morally confused.” But it is the “moral confusion” at the heart of the Bush policy — a confusion between its important ends and insufficient means — that has hobbled us from the start. It truly, truly baffles me why a president who bet so much of his legacy on this project never gave it his best shot and tolerated so much incompetence. He summoned us to D-Day and gave us the moral equivalent of the invasion of Panama.

Amen. Perhaps we shouldn’t even be in Iraq at all anymore – but if we’re going to be there, we should at least do it right. This half-assed effort is getting us nowhere. Once again, the Bush administration is just plain incompetent.

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