We're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, right? Our newly deceased former president, Gerald Ford, will now be turned into some kind of hero. That's the role of the media--to say happy things to put us in the mood to buy the products they advertise. Therefore, the media…
I was recently discussing the Iraq war with a political lobbyist friend of mine when he mentioned something I had not previously considered: neocons and other law-and-order conservatives try to justify the Iraq invasion by saying that even though Saddam didn't have WMDs, he was defying UN-mandated inspections of Iraqi…
Think Progress contrasts Laura Bush's recent argument that the media are failing to report all of the good things that are happening to this excerpt from the Iraq Study Group: In addition, there is significant underreporting of the violence in Iraq. The standard for recording attacks acts as a filter…
It makes me wonder whether anyone is buything this line of bull anymore. I wonder how the families of the soldiers killed in Iraq are reacting to this lie these days. Maybe it gives some of them solace, because the alternative would be so incredibly crushing. My thoughts? Good-bye. Good riddance.
Vanity Fair has published an extraordinary article including interviews with many architects of America's foreign policy. What do they think now that Iraq has been such a miserable failure? Varying degrees of regret can be detected in the people interviewed, but little remose, except from Kenneth Adelman: Fearing that worse…