Gordon Gins Up War

NYT tomorrow reviews new book on the "endgame" in Iraq (which had upsurge in violence again this past weekend) by its reporter Michael Gordon and Gen. Bernard Trainor.  As we'd expect from these two, it hails "the surge" and Bush's vision in Iraq, and hits Obama for opposing it and then lucking out by being able to oversee a semi-exit.  Coming from Gordon I will expect about 41 claims that Iran is most to blame for being behind the insurgency in Iraq and warnings about their role today.

But what will really interest me, and it's not in the review--will Gordon acknowledge the key articles he wrote with Judy Miller that promoted the WMD menace and paved the path to war?  Poor Judy gets all the blame, and it's true that she did articles on her own that were horrific, but Gordon deserves a full measure of blame himself.   Just think, without him, any surge and exit--and this book--might not have been necessary.