Last night Keith Olbermann opened his show with a Special Comment. (Link To Comment)
Thanks to ek hornbeck for the link to the video.
This was probably the most fired up I have ever seen Keith, probably because the level of bullshit that is now coming out of the Bush Administration is to a point that someone has to say "Do you have no shame, Sir!"
Bush and his stooges have returned to blaming those of us, including Keith and 70% of the country, that are against this war for its failure. Sorry that crap won't fly and you Bushies can, in the words of Dick Cheney, GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!!
From the comment -
The Bush administration has opened this Pandora’s Box about Iraq. It has found its scapegoats: Hillary Clinton and us.
The lies and terror tactics with which it deluded this country into war — they had nothing to do with the abomination that Iraq has become. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The selection of the wrong war, in the wrong time, in the wrong place — the most disastrous geopolitical tactic since Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia in 1914 and destroyed itself in the process — that had nothing to do with the overwhelming crisis Iraq has become. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The criminal lack of planning for the war — the total "jump-off-a-bridge-and-hope-you-can-fly" tone to the failure to anticipate what would follow the deposing of Saddam Hussein — that had nothing to do with the chaos in which Iraq has been enveloped. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The utter, blinkered idiocy of "staying the course," of sending Americans to Iraq and sending them a second time, and a third and a fourth, until they get killed or maimed — the utter de-prioritization of human life, simply so a politician can avoid having to admit a mistake — that had nothing to do with the tens of thousand individual tragedies darkening the lives of American families, forever. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The continuing, relentless, remorseless, corrupt and cynical insistence that this conflict somehow is defeating or containing or just engaging the people who attacked us on 9/11, the total "Alice Through the Looking Glass" quality that ignores that in Iraq, we have made the world safer for al-Qaida — it isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault!
The fault, brought down, as if a sermon from this mount of hypocrisy and slaughter by a nearly anonymous undersecretary of defense, has tonight been laid on the doorstep of... Sen. Hillary Clinton and, by extension, at the doorstep of every American — the now-vast majority of us — who have dared to criticize this war or protest it or merely ask questions about it or simply, plaintively, innocently, honestly, plead, "Don’t take my son; don’t take my daughter."
Don't think that this tactic of shifting the blame will not work. Do not put anything past this administration. They are trying to muzzle those that continue to tell the truth about this administration by branding them enemies of the state. It is time for the Kossack Nation to start to flood MSNBC and NBC with letters of support for Keith Olbermann and others that give the finger to Bush and Company.
Here is a list of emails to send letters of support -
countdown@msnbc.com
viewerservices@msnbc.com
WebEditors@newsweek.com
letters@msnbc.com
GeneralComments@feedback.msnbc.com
Nightly@NBC.com
Fire Away!