I heard this today on CNN...I was incredulous.
At a hearing it was stated that sectarian violence is on the wane in Iraq and that things are improving slightly. This coming on the day after 150 people or more were kidnapped from one location, and on the morning in which 55 more butchered, tortured, bodies were found in Bagdad.
Greenwald offers additional thought:
"I know I've written about this several times before, but it is truly unfathomable that the people who are responsible for this disaster -- not just the ones who advocated it in the beginning, but much worse, the ones who continued to insist that things were going well and that everything was progressing nicely and that reports to the contrary should be dismissed and ignored -- continue to be accorded respect and treated as though they have great credibility.
Why is that?And conversely, why are those who were so right and prescient and wise in their counsel treated as though they are lightweight, laughable morons who can't be "trusted with national security"?
Why is it that when one watches news programs, one still encounters all of those smug, all-knowing little sneers whenever there is a reference to Howard Dean or Nancy Pelosi and national security, whereas John McCain and Charles Krauthammer and Robert Kagan and Lawrence Kaplan -- Iraq War lovers all -- are addressed with whispered reverence as we wait for their wise and weighty pronouncements about What We Should Do Next?
It's like watching a patient who has lost limbs and organs due to a surgeon's gross malpractice continue to return to that same surgeon for the next operation, while scoffing at the doctors who warned of the dangers."
More from him here: http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/11/our-wise-national-security-guardians.html#links
No comments:
Post a Comment