Robert Scheer is the best kind of "angry liberal". Back in late 2001 and 2002, when the rest of the media was kowtowing to Shrub, Scheer was asking tough questions about the rush to war and misguided national priorities.
This week's column is even better than usual. Scheer elegantly ties together the Iraqi soccer team's well deserved bitch slap of Shrub with Kerry's Vietnam testimony in 1971.
Choice excerpt:
Those who attack Kerry for speaking out in 1971 against the Vietnam War don't understand that it was an enormous public service for returning American veterans to expose the cynicism of their leaders, as Kerry did in testifying before the U.S. Senate.
The young Kerry was speaking truth to power, facing a reality that presidents Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson had admitted in private, as
records made public later revealed.