Thursday, February 03, 2005

Leslie Gelb Asks Iraq: Who's Your Daddy?

More Lessons from our Founding Fathers

Leslie H. Gelb is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. As a former editor and columnist for The New York Times, however, he transforms into the Amazing Gelbo and gets to spout his ill-informed paeans to denial on that paper’s op-ed page. February 2, 2005 saw the publication of a little something called “The Lessons of 1787,” in which Gelbo waxed poetic about the “truly heartwarming effects of Sunday’s (Iraqi) elections.” He reminded us: “Elections decide who is to govern” but warned that only a Constitution can “define the reach and limits of electoral power, and the viability and legitimacy of a government.”



To read the complete article, please click here:
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/mickeyz02022005/

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