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Posted on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 11:13:28 AM EST
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Dave Weigel and Matt Yglesias are having fun picking on Marty Peretz's personal assistant and I can't resist piling on. Peretz's Kirchick wrote:

[ R]egime change in Iraq was the official, bipartisan policy of the United States government years before it became fashionable for journalists to write tiresome, 5,000-word articles linking Ahmed Chalabi, PNAC and Paul Wolfowitz.

(Emphasis supplied.) I am tired of those pieces too. But they at least have the virtue of being true. Chalabi, Wolfowitz and PNAC were intimately connected. Unlike the claims made in those once fashionable articles that connected Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and mushroom clouds.

The other difference between those two types of tiresome articles is one type consists of rather meaningless blather. The other contributed to the launching of the most disastrous strategic blunder since Vietnam.

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    "The most disastrous... (none / 0) (#1)
    by desertswine on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 12:08:15 PM EST
    ...strategic blunder since Vietnam."

    And the most expensive. At costs approaching one trillion dollars, even adjusting for inflation, the Iraq Debacle is costing more than the Vietnam Disaster.

    failing upwards (none / 0) (#3)
    by Sumner on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 01:41:46 PM EST
    one man's blunder is another man's war profiteering

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    er, (none / 0) (#4)
    by Sumner on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 01:53:57 PM EST
    maybe sometimes one in the same

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    Manchurian Joe (none / 0) (#2)
    by Alien Abductee on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 12:23:05 PM EST
    I like that he's managing to compress what should be a years-long transition from moderate Democrat to psychotic rightwinger into just a few months.

    Disturbing thought for the day: if it weren't for the stolen election of 2000, would the Liarman be making this transition not as a warmongerering loon forced out of his own party but as a former two-time Dem VP and new Dem prez?...

    The arrogance is staggering! (none / 0) (#5)
    by Ellie on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 04:49:44 PM EST
    I can't recall enough of the precise phrasing to google up a link quickly -- and plead Sat. afternoon mayhem for not doing so -- but in one of his "balanced" commentaries, Ho "Conflict of Interest" Kurtz impatiently complained about the truth-squadding going on at the hands of us angry, unhinged anti-war types. Sheesh, and so on and so forth.

    Because delaying warmongers in any way with the highest standard for evidence, particularly in what looked then for a war of aggression, and indeed turned out to be that very disgrace, was just the height of infantile disruption.

    Demanding a factual foundation for a war of aggression. had the Republican Palace`s very own referee complaining of being hounded.

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