It's nice to see
American Prospect's Harold Meyerson take the lead in outlining just who is responsible for selling a bloodthirsty war policy to Americans.
A great article which outlines the reasons these people need to be ridiculed out of public life:
William Kristol
Charles Krauthammer
Victor Davis Hanson
Thomas L. Friedman
Christopher Hitchens
quotes below...
Excellent quote:
The point here is not just that the pundits' predictions were wrong -- or, in the case, of Friedman, right, but he chose to ignore them -- or their post-facto justications pathetic. The point is that in the sway of ideology, or historical imperative, or loyalty to the administration's hawks, they misrepresented supposition as fact, excused the misconduct of administration officials, and neglected to consider the predictable consequences of the war they promoted. If we truly lived in the culture of consequences that conservatives profess to support, the role of these pundits in our national conversation would be greatly, and justly, diminished.
Eric Alterman adds:
What is perhaps most galling about this is the fact that if you tried to warn your fellow citizens against just this likelihood three years ago when it was still preventable, you were part of some decadent, fifth-columnist coastal elite that hated America, while the chest beating patriots were the ones who drained this nation of its blood and treasure is the service of their own lethal combination of ignorance, arrogance, and ideological obsession. Onward Christian Soldiers.