Glenn Greenwald: The amoral cretins who rule our public discourse

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So many of the oh-so-brave and oh-so-honest Bush followers who now suddenly proclaim the war in Iraq to be a failure spent the last three years continuously branding those who said the same thing as surrender-happy cowards and traitors. Two years ago and even a year ago (and in some quarters, still), those who pointed out that our invasion was achieving nothing other than mass death, a destruction of U.S. credibility, swarms of conversions of Muslims into extremists, and a gross weakening of our military were viciously attacked as American-hating subversives who wanted the U.S. to lose.

Yet now, many of the people who did the demonizing are themselves declaring their war to be a failure without acknowledging their responsibility for it and reconciling their admissions with their sickening demonization of those who pointed this out all along. One of the worst and most infuriating examples I've seen yet is this:

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Back in November when Peters wanted to depict anti-war Democrats as dangerous subversives, Peters said: "Ignore what would happen in Iraq — and the region — if we bail out. And don't mention how a U.S. surrender would turn al Qaeda into an Islamic superpower, the champ who knocked out Uncle Sam in the third round. . . . Quit Iraq, and far more than 2,000 Americans are going to die."

Now that he wants to "quit Iraq," he says: "And contrary to the prophets of doom, the United States wouldn't be weakened by our withdrawal, should it come to that."

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1. They should all be held accountable for putting this dimwit in office

and giving him control of our country.

It was more than clear from his history as a failed businessman turned governor what would happen.

These morans are the real chumps. Damn them and their self righteous "political awakenings".

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4. exactly. the MSM have acted as enablers, and in doing so share the blame

for what has happened to our Democratic Republic turned Theocracy.

[enough]

2. This is so important. We have to remember that thousands of people

were doing everything they could to stop this criminal aggression before it happened. And all of us were able to predict -- even without any professional knowledge -- the disaster, the mass killing, the promulgation of chaos in the region. While the purveyors of conventional wisdom were acting as if it was a perfectly plausible "operation."

Will there ever be accountability -- not more than ever before.

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3. I feel that way, too.

Only, for me, it isn't just the war in Iraq and Bush's domestic policies. It includes the events of 9/11 themselves. Even leftists think I'm out of my mind. I'm not. The whole thing from the selection of 2000 onward has been one continuous (and on going) psychological operation. Bush was no more in control of it than we were. The difference is, he really doesn't give a shit -- he and his buddies have gotten everything they wanted including away with it, so far. This is the biggest shake-down in human history and we are the rubes. God help us all if we don't begin to get the picture of who the real terrorists are.