Knowledge gap

Lawrence Kaplan puts it bluntly in the New Republic: "Congressional leaders are illiterate on Iraq"

Maybe it was a slip of the tongue. But, when Nancy Pelosi confessed last year that she felt "sad" about President Bush's claims that Al Qaeda operates in Iraq, she seemed to be disputing what every American soldier in Iraq, every Al Qaeda operative, and anyone who reads a newspaper already knew to be true.

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