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It was discouraging last week when discredited conservatives, who failed spectacularly on U.S. policy in Iraq, were given a media platform to talk about U.S. policy in Iraq. Last weeks Sunday shows alone, featuring the likes of Paul Wolfowitz and Bill Kristol, led James Fallows to argue, In the circumstances, they might have the decency to shut the hell up on this particular topic for a while. They helped create the disaster Iraqis and others are now dealing with. They have earned the right not to be listened to.
And yet, these discredited voices remain ubiquitous. Kenneth Pollack, for example, was on CNN yesterday, presented to viewers as a credible expert. Elliott Abrams, who pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra scandal, and went on serve on the Bush/Cheney National Security Council as head of the Mideast bureau, had a lengthy piece in Politico yesterday describing President Obama as the man who broke the Middle East.
And then there was ABCs This Week, which welcomed Dick Cheney for his third Sunday show appearance since March. It went about as expected, though I was struck by the failed former vice presidents response to some of his catastrophic errors of fact and judgment.
With all due respect, Jon, I was a strong supporter then of going into Iraq, Im a strong supporter now. Everybody knows what my position is. Theres nothing to be argued about there.
But if we spend our time debating what happened 11 or 12 years ago, were going to miss the threat that is growing and that we do face.
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, theres a scene in which John Cleeses Sir Lancelot, certain hes doing the right thing in behalf of a damsel in distress, storms into a castle during a wedding party, indiscriminately slaughtering most of the guests with his sword. The castle owner, eager to curry favor with Lancelot, urges the survivors to let bygones be bygones.
More here: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/cheney-doesnt-want-talk-about-what-happened-11-or-12-years-ago
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)It's that he was spectacularly wrong, deliberately lied to Congress and the media, comitted treason in an effort to silence a whistle-blower, committed war crimes in ordering torture, and committed corruption in giving no-bid contracts to his former company Halliburton, which he was still receiving payments from. And now he's arisen again like a zombie. Thats what happens when we "look forward", and don't send the criminals to prison.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)He has no credibility. Why teevee stations continue to seek his opinion is beyond me.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Or at least I wish he didn't. How exactly did he manage to jump the line for transplants anyway?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)Hekate
(90,681 posts)... a good dirty political fight at home. "Let's you and him fight!" is their cry. Of course we know which side they're on: the Default Party's side, the GOP.
ABC' "This Week" has had the monstrous Dick Cheney on three times since March?!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)has nothing to do with it!
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