First, Jonathan Finer on why you should trust BS from politicians just back from a weeklong guided tour of Iraq. Second, Marisa Taylor and Kevin G. Hall on the Commerce and Treasury Departments being misused for partisan ends.
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18 Aug 2007 11:48 pm
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It is my general policy to always trust all BS, especially from politicians.
Similar VIP tours were conducted in Vietnam, of course. Prowar Michigan Governor George Romney, Mitt's father, was one of the Pentagon's guests there in 1965. Two years later, as a Republican presidential candidate, he reversed his position on the war, saying: "When I came back from Vietnam, I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get."
To which Democratic candidate Eugene McCarthy commented, "I would have thought a light rinse would have done it."
The tradition of the "light rinse" lives on in Iraq...
I only trust BS from bloggers.
Laura Ingraham's post-protected visit ("for 8 days") comments were the best since they inspired the most beautiful evisceration of a right-wing blowhard (Laura Ingraham) ever. I mean, of course, Lara Logan's. "Well, who's saying things aren't falling apart here in Iraq?" (the whole of Logan's remarks should be replayed every hour on the hour on TV. School children should learn it by heart. And they, finally, should be tattooed on the forehead of every right wing shock jock who has ever opened his paid-for shilling mouth on the subject.)
That was a good piece by Finer, although he did engage in a little OTOHism.
By the way, a must-read is the Op-Ed piece in today's Times by several NCO's just finishing up a tour in Iraq. It's a perfect response to the O'Hanlon/Pollack piece (without directly taking them on by name). They tell you what it's really like in Iraq, not what the dog-and-pony show is.
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"shouldn't" trust, surely?
Posted by Jordan | August 19, 2007 12:29 AM