5 Years Later: Pundits Who Were Wrong on Iraq Are Silent

[babsbunny]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003732704

To choose just one example: David Brooks. Exactly five years ago, on the verge of war, he even attacked his current employer, The New York Times, for calling for "still more discussion" before attacking Iraq.

(March 25, 2008) -- Given the current tragedy in Iraq--hell, given the past five years--you would think the many pundits who agitated for an attack on that country, largely on false pretenses, would have take the opportunity of the arrival of the fifth anniversary of the war (or the 4000 dead milestone) to drop to their knees, at least in print, and beg the American public for forgiveness.

With more than 60 percent of their fellow Americans now calling the war a "mistake" and agitating for troop withdrawals--and the president's approval rating still heading south, thanks to their war--it would seem to be the right thing to do. We won't even mention the maiming of more than 20,000 young Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

[pinto]

1. Kick. n/t

:kick:

[alstephenson]

2. k & r

[NanceGreggs]

3. Oh, yeah!

:kick: & REC'D!!!

[DiverDave]

4. I worked with several people who were

all for it...I wonder if they are now...

[Hannah Bell]

5. The people I worked with at the time were all for it, jingo city. Calls for

arab blood every day at lunch. (This is a goup of well-paid "professionals," mind you.)

Now they just don't talk about it. But they'd never admit they were wrong. They probably don't think they were, they just think Bush didn't do it right.

[Quantess]

6. Well, they're half right, then.

And if they think Bush Co. bungled it up (FUBAR), they're correct about that, too.

Personally, I've always been opposed to the Iraq invasion. But even I couldn't have imagined it would have turned out this badly.

[SpiralHawk]

7. republicon corporate propaganda puppets, like all republicons, live on lies

And never accept responsibility for them...

[EFerrari]

8. David Brooks called the invasion "Bush's Epic Gamble"in a NYTs column.

How "epic" has it been, @sshole, with a million plus dead and millions displaced?

[OnionPatch]

9. Silent?

Coulda fooled me. Plenty of the pro-war asshats are still on the talk shows, still spouting their garbage as if they are experts and being treated as such against all reason.

[stanwyck]

13. Bill Kristol and David Frum

are still flogging the "victory in Iraq" spiel. So is Krauthammer. And, you're right, plenty of outlets are giving them a chance to spout their unrelenting neo-con fairy tales.

[snot]

10. Silent, I wish -- I thought many had been promoted.

[leftofthedial]

11. it would be the right thing to do

but not the right wing thing to do

[bryant69]

12. I wish they would be silent

Instead many of those jerks are calling for Iraq war 2 - Iran!

Bryant
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[Rob H.]

14. They may be silent about the fact that they were wrong

but I still see Brooks, Kristol, Krauthammer, etc., on TV being held up as "experts" when they're nothing of the sort. Kristol has been consistently wrong about everything related to Iraq, and yet that PNAC piece of shit got rewarded with a position at The New York Times, for fuck's sake!