Is Glenn Greenwald trying to save face?

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52. Yes, I also remember the awful time when Bush became president.

It also took me many week to come to terms with it. What I hated most was that he was not the winner of the race, he was handed it by the Supreme Court. I knew it would be downhill from there. I believed that he was not emotionally capable of becoming a better person and the awful people he surrounded himself with only reinforced that feeling.


While Greenwald had made a mistake about the war, unlike many people who were reluctant to admit they had been fooled and that certainly gives him some credibility. However, I do think we have a right to examine his decision making process when critiquing his work. Support for an illegal war that many of our NATO allies were against and Nelson Mandela called "A threat to world peace
is a very hard thing to justify. That is why I did not support Hillary in the democratic race.

I am also very disturbed that our drones are killing innocent people and that the program is being done clouded in secrecy. We need the press to keep the public informed when we go around the world murdering innocent civilians. However Greenwald's role in the Iraq becomes relevant when he attacks Raw Story for defending the president. He used a totally unrelated report about Scott Walker, that turned out to be false, to justify his position. He should have defended his point on the strength of the facts. After all, he had been terribly wrong himself about Iraq when even I knew that Bush had intended to invade Iraq before almost as soon as he became president. He is, by implication, saying if you are wrong about one thing, you are less credible. We certainly have the right to hold him to his own standards. This in no way relates to our support of the democratic party.