Newsweek Makes Like George Bush
"Newsweek Lied, People Died," right-wing bloggers are screaming (all in unison, same headline).
Um, aren't we forgetting the basis of the war? And I have to say, I'm no dove. I thought we should have gone in there and flattened Afghanistan after 9-11. Right now, we have a permanent problem on our hands in Iraq. Even hairy-toed lefties are admitting that, now we're there, we have to stick around and clean up our mess.
I don't even read much of the day-to-day news about Iraq in the daily papers. It's always "somebody blew up a police station, and there's Omar, with the shredded body of his brother, or Jack Jones, with his dead lifelong best buddy."
And now, who do the right-wing bloggers want to see resign? The editors of Newsweek. Um, yoohoo, look a little higher.
> ...we have a permanent problem on our hands
> in Iraq.
Prior to invasion, did you regard the problems as temporary?
Overboard says:
> ...1,700 Americans were killed based on lies
> they were warned about but didn't listen to...
This line of argument got the war opponents nowhere in 2004, and it's not aging well.
Crid at May 17, 2005 6:51 AM
Right wingers are clearly wrong to say Newsweek "lied", though the story was incorrect.
But then, so are you to imply that Bush lied, though he (and lots of others, such as Clinton, Gore, Annan, etc,) was also clearly incorrect on WMD.
Todd Fletcher at May 17, 2005 9:13 AM
They weren't our problem. We had a president elected on "no nation-building" -- and whoops, off he goes. Moreover, it seems clear according to some recent information, that Bush was gunning to invade Iraq no matter what. 9-11 was merely convenient. Big ole lie there, if you ask me.
Amy Alkon at May 17, 2005 2:41 PM
> They weren't our problem.
Oh fer Chrissake. Who the HELL was going to clean it up? Saddam was OUR GUY.
Okey fine Amy, but no more tears for Darfur, OK? Fuck 'em.
What you call "whoops" is known by most as "9/11," a brutal eruption in the fault of our approach to the Middle East for the last five decades or so. Given his heritage and the bureaucratic inertia of his office, there was no reason to think W would be a deft enough thinker to change the direction of American foreign policy. Some of us are proud that when the Boomer generation really needed a testicular champion in that office, he was the one with the job.
PS- We've covered this before. You don't really care about any of that "nation building" shit, do you? You're too smart for believing in such a schoolyard saying as a principal of foreign policy. You're just fucking with me, because you know you can. You're just dropping a piece of cheese, knowing the mouse will come a-scurrying.
(You tipped your hand with 'merely convenient'... No lefty could be so audaciously mad)
Crid at May 17, 2005 7:04 PM
Crid, as Amy has pointed out, many times, she's NOT a leftie. She's a civil libertarian. Quite a different thing.
Patrick, The Goddess Fan at May 18, 2005 11:50 AM
If she claimed to be a blond who enjoyed vacations in Tulsa....
Crid at May 18, 2005 3:41 PM
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