>>>See my other reply, but William Safire wasn't so great.
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>>What didn't you like about Safire?
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>I really enjoyed his "On Language" column and he should have stayed with linguistics.
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>His all out support of the Iraq slaughter and prediction that it would be a quick war were blunders that erase anything of value he accomplished.

It "could have" been a much quicker war. You can't blame Safire for that one. Bush and the men at the controls? Sure....Safire? No way