Let the Mea Culpas begin - Alterman

[dArKeR]

To my hawkish friends who are not also ideologically blinded and/or intellectually dishonest:  Repeat after Tucker:

“I think it’s a total nightmare and disaster, and I’m ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it," he said. "It’s something I’ll never do again. Never. I got convinced by a friend of mine who’s smarter than I am, and I shouldn’t have done that. No. I want things to work out, but I’m enraged by it, actually."

Shorter Tom Friedman:  What Tucker said (though not as forthrightly).

Stop the presses:Max Boot Makes Sense  (Must be his crack editor.)

What  next?  Pigs fly?  Hitchens’ owns up?

And this is before they knew we were torturing and raping them: 

“Four out of five Iraqis report holding a negative view of the U.S. occupation authority and of coalition forces, according to a new poll conducted for the occupation authority.”

The only thing that that prevents me from asking how this war could possibly have gone any worse is the fact that every time you think that what you’ve just heard about this administration is the worst possible outcome, they always manage to outdo themselves.  It’s amazing, really, and one has to exercise tremendous self-discipline to avoid giving into despair, particularly given how little of these basic truths make it through the SCLM.  Once again, it proves Philip Roth’s oft-repeated observation that the most vivid novelist’s imagination is no match for reality, though that is hardly much comfort.

Quote of the Day I:  "He is not up to the job. This is not a moral judgment, but a practical one.  The world is too complex and dangerous for the pious simplicities and arrogant unilateralism of George W.  Bush."
-The communist Financial Times

Quote of the Day II:  “Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the British army in their Treatment of our unfortunate brethren.”
-George Washington.  Yes, really, George Washington, speaking to the officer he placed in charge of 211 prisoners taken at Princeton.  From David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing, (Thanks to Jerome Clark)

Dorothy Rabinowitz to 9/11 widow: “Shut up”  The Wall Street Journal’s chief television watcher terms the widows of 9/11 to be “absurd products of the zeitgeist - women clearly in the grip of the delusion that they know something… who feel attacked,” presses send.  (We note for the record, though this article does not, that Kristin Breitweiser is a Republican who voted for George W. Bush.) 

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

[fryguy]

1. great quote....

"He is not up to the job. This is not a moral judgment, but a practical one. The world is too complex and dangerous for the pious simplicities and arrogant unilateralism of George W. Bush."

[Miss Authoritiva]

2. Poor Tucker. He gave in to peer pressure.

He sounds like Beaver Cleaver explaining to Ward and June how Gilbert talked him into doing something really goofy.