The really smart, serious, credible Iraq experts
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
07/30/07
What is the most vivid and compelling evidence of how broken our political system is? It is that the exact same people who urged us into the war in Iraq, were wrong in everything they said, and issued one false assurance after the next as the war failed, continue to be the same people held up as our Serious Iraq Experts. The exact ‘experts’ to whom we listened in 2002 and 2003 are the same exact establishment ‘experts’ now. Hence, today we have yet another Op-Ed declaring that We Really Are Winning in Iraq This Time — this one in the NYT from ‘liberal’ Brookings Institution ’scholars’ Ken Pollack and Mike O’Hanlon...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/30/brookings/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brookings+Institution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald
07/30/07
What is the most vivid and compelling evidence of how broken our political system is? It is that the exact same people who urged us into the war in Iraq, were wrong in everything they said, and issued one false assurance after the next as the war failed, continue to be the same people held up as our Serious Iraq Experts. The exact ‘experts’ to whom we listened in 2002 and 2003 are the same exact establishment ‘experts’ now. Hence, today we have yet another Op-Ed declaring that We Really Are Winning in Iraq This Time — this one in the NYT from ‘liberal’ Brookings Institution ’scholars’ Ken Pollack and Mike O’Hanlon...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/30/brookings/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Brookings+Institution
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
rudkla - 31. Jul, 11:19
