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In reply to the discussion: Jon Stewart LAYS INTO Judith Miller: You PUSHED US Into ‘Devastating’ Iraq Mistake [View all]wiggs
(7,810 posts)the neocons and current GOP leadership invented and follow. To not report on this kind of thing is ANOTHER institutional failure of the current media (not Stewart of course). It is an EASY case to make by pundits, journalists, or dem leaders that there was plenty of skepticism around the world about Bush's rush to war. Forgeries, outing CIA agents, cartoon WMD factories, France and Germany warnings, embrace of Chalabi....there's a giant list of questions we should be asking Miller, Cheney, Jeb Bush (another neocon signee to PNAC). These questions were known prior to the Iraq invasion...it's NOT hindsight. But somehow the issue is always muddied, gray, polarized, forgotten.
The Bush aide who told Suskind that reality is what they make of it would recognize that Miller is simply continuing the successful propaganda effort to write history they way they want, avoiding further discussion, guilt, accountability, and the ability to process the Iraq/Bush disaster as a nation so we can avoid another moral/diplomatic/political/ social failure of judgement. The Suskind quote:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors
and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Miller's appearances are more of the same tactic. This quote should be brought up every day...or at least every day that Miller, Bush, Cheney, Rove, Wolfowitz, Libby, or Rumsfeld are even mentioned in the press.