Paul Krugman: The defining moment

[Cronopio]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

One addendum to today’s column: the truth, which I think everyone in the political/media establishments knows in their hearts, is that the nine months or so between the summer of 2002 and the beginning of the Iraq insurgency were a great national moral test — a test that most people in influential positions failed.

The Bush administration was obviously — yes, obviously — telling tall tales in order to promote the war it wanted: the constant insinuations of an Iraq-9/11 link, the hyping of discredited claims about a nuclear program, etc.. And the question was, should you stand up against that? Not many did — and those who did were treated as if they were crazy.

For me and many others that was a radicalizing experience; I’ll never trust “sensible” opinion again. But for those who stayed “sensible” through the test, it’s a moment they’d like to see forgotten. That, I believe, is the real reason so many want to let torture and everything else go down the memory hole.

Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

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A lot of people in and outside the Beltway need to rethink their investment in political groupthink.

[bertman]

1. Thanks, Cronopio. I don't think many of us will find fault in this oped by Krugman.

Truer words than those in the oped were never spoken.

Recommend.

[SlingBlade]

2. And the most obvious thing about it ....

If torture worked, Why didn't they waterboard Saddam Husein to find out where those
WMD's were ?

Answer, They knew it was BullShit, Thats why