Debating Iraq in 2014: Wrong All Over Again

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/16-9



Debating Iraq in 2014: Wrong All Over Again
by Peter Hart
Published on Monday, June 16, 2014 by Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

The crisis in Iraq has brought war back to the US airwaves. But if you were expecting a more robust discussion about US military action this time around, think again. The rule seems to be that if you were wrong in 2003, you're still an expert in 2014.

Take the Sunday chat shows. On ABC's This Week (6/15/14), viewers heard first from former military: ex-fighter pilot Steve Ganyard and retired Gen. Peter Chiarelli.

Up next was Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), a hawkish lawmaker who called Iraq "the greatest threat, national security threat, since 9/11."

The show's roundtable closed with a brief discussion of Iraq, featuring hard-right war advocates Laura Ingraham and Bill Kristol alongside Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who voted against the Iraq War resolution in 2002. Kristol, one of the most visible media proponents of the Iraq invasion, has never suffered any consequences as a pundit. He told ABC viewers–perhaps even with a straight face–that the current crisis in Iraq is "a disaster unfortunately made possible, or certainly made more likely, by our ridiculous and total withdrawal from Iraq in 2011."

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At least Wolfowitz wasn't licking his comb. Pssst! The Iraq war cost more than $50 billion dollars, asshole.

I can't believe these douchebags are back on TV again. Nor that anyone listens to them.