Bobo's column in yesterday's NY Times is a masterpiece of self-delusion and self-deception. It reeks of the collective amnesia that has befallen the Republican party involving the Iraq War prior to the "surge". When John McSame does it we can't be sure whether its the collective amnesia or senile dementia.
Demented though he may be, Bobo's is the amnesia bit. He and and his other Republican lickspittles and apologists would have us believe that all that matters is what is happening here and now in Iraq not all that bad icky stuff that happened immediately after we invaded and continued up to a year ago.
No sirree bob. What's the point in dwelling on the past and the fact that Bush&Co. never planned for anything beyond the "shock and awe" phase. (Somewhere Kristol the Klown just got goosebumps.) So what if the entire infrastructure collapsed in days. So what if there was widespread looting, rioting, and murder. So what if we let Saddam's true believers disappear into the fog of war only to regroup and wreak havoc on our forces.
So what if we opened Iraq's borders to every terrorist and jihadi within 100 miles. So what if we gave Iran a carte blanche invite to sow dissent and violence throughout the country. So what if Iran has been shipping massive amounts of arms and monies to the militias.
So what if over 4000 young American men and women have died for oil. So what if tens of thousands of young men and women have been permanently maimed and disfigured both physically and psychologically. So what if we have pissed away hundreds of billions of dollars to satisfy the power and money lusts of truly evil men. So what? Isn't that what Cheney said: "So?"
According to Brooks even thing is fine now. See how smart John McSame was. (No, no. Forget about him being one of the war's chief cheerleaders. That was then. This is now.)
But the best part of this piece of "jounamalism" (sic) is the last paragraph when he unwittingly describes Bush&Co and himself as well to a "T".
"Life is complicated. The reason we have democracy is that no one side is right all the time. The only people who are dangerous are those who can’t admit, even to themselves, that obvious fact."
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