Fire The War Pimps: Zero Tolerance for Iraq War Pundits (Tucker confesses)

[cthrumatrix]

Fire The War Pimps: Zero Tolerance for Iraq War Pundits

May 17, 2004

By: Ted Rall
Universal Press Syndicate


NEW YORK--A year and a half late and 30,000 lives short, supporters of the war in Iraq finally admit that they were wrong.
When I appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show recently, his bellicose bravado was MIA. We argued about Bush and war, but he studiously avoided talking about Iraq. The Fox News demagogue limited his attacks to my opposition to the war against Afghanistan (news - web sites). To his credit O'Reilly, formerly a ferocious advocate of the Iraqi invasion, was one of the first media war promoters to concede that Iraq had never been a threat to the United States. "I was wrong," he told ABC in February. "I think every American should be very concerned" that weapons of mass destruction have not been found.

Over at The New York Times, two pro-war columnists who repeatedly parroted the Bush party line--arguing that Gulf War (news - web sites) II was a noble experiment in Middle Eastern democracy, accusing opponents of appeasing Saddam and repeatedly ridiculing skeptics as knee-jerk pacifists who didn't care about the long-suffering Iraqis--have ordered up a heaping plate of crow. "We went into Iraq with what, in retrospect, seems like a childish fantasy," allows Republican war pimp David Brooks. "We were going to topple Saddam, establish democracy and hand the country back to grateful Iraqis. We expected to be universally admired when it was all over. For us to succeed in Iraq," he concludes now, "we have to lose ."

"I supported the war and now I feel foolish," says CNN's Tucker Carlson.

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http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=7306&fcategory_desc=Media%20Lies%20and%20Right%20Wing%20Bias

all these "assholes" that were blood thirsty should be brought to task.

[htuttle]

1. Wait: They used to be for the war, now they are against it? A flip flop?

No, it 's not!

It's called watching someone make a fucked up mess of something, and realizing it was a bad idea to begin with. A lot of Americans have woken to the same realization over the last 12 months.

That's why this 'Iraq flip flop' that Bush alleges Kerry did causes little harm. Too many Americans who used to think the war was a good idea have changed their minds after seeing Bush's performance. The Flip Flop charge only works on people who still support Bush and the war.

[cthrumatrix]

2. THEY are the reason for the Iraq war...supporting bush when the

"whole world" was against it...bush NEVER went back for a "war vote" at the UN.

[htuttle]

4. Well, the blame for the Iraq fiasco falls squarely on President Bush

Can't look at it any other way.

Sure, he had an assortment of enablers in Congress and in the press -- some of whom knew the truth, others of whom believed Bush's lies -- but the ultimate blame still lies with Little Boots.

What I'm saying is that pundits like those described in the article can hardly blame someone for changing their mind on the invasion of Iraq, since they've changed their minds themselves.

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Bush loving pundits should find a job where their asinine opinions ...

won't help get someone killed. O'liely should go back to tabloid reporting and stay out of politics. Bow tie boy should find a job writing a lifestyles column at a newspaper someplace.