Something like that was the question posed by an attorney for the U.S. Army to Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the McCarthy-Army hearings during the anti-Communist witch hunts of the 1950's. It is credited as the turning point where someone finally stood up to McCarthy and he could no longer bully people and end careers, etc. in his zealot pursuit of Communists in high places in American government.
It is time for such a moment regarding the situation in Iraq. More specifically with the people coming out of the woodwork to blame the current mess on Obama and his administration. Mostly, I was thinking of John McCain, but it applies to the usual suspects. All of those who designed, sold and were cheerleaders for a war of choice that was doomed from the start.
McCain, his "Smithers" Lindsay Graham (fans of The Simpsons will understand that reference), John Bolton, Ari Fleisher, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, any conservative or mainstream pundit or "journalist" who sold us on weapons of mass destruction, mushroom clouds, links to al Queda, we will be greeted as liberators, the war will pay for itself, it will be over in a matter of weeks, months at the most, there will be no problems between Sunnis and Shias, anyof the people who peddled that garbage should not be given the time of day ever again.
And all those who scoffed at and ridiculed those who questioned the build up to war, or stood by silently while critics or skeptics were silenced, their patriotism questioned, the warnings to "watch what you say" were made, the Dixie Chicks were "dixie chicked", as Phil Donahue lost his show on MSNBC for questioning the war on terror and the need to invade Iraq, as a CIA agent was outed as political payback for her husband calling out the President for one of his intelligence lies, as people who predicted the chaos that came in the wake of the invasion and that we see again now, were driven to the margins, and you did or said nothing.
You were wrong. Dreadfully, disastrously wrong. The hippies, the liberals, the anti-war freaks got this right. And many professionals in State, Defense and intelligence communities. They knew the intelligence didn't add up. They knew the history of the region and warned and predicted the insurgency and the sectarian violence then and now should we go in and destabilize the area.
But who do we see and hear from now? Largely the list from above, especially McCain and Graham. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. The surge never worked. We went in and paid off the Sunni tribal and militia leaders to stop fighting us and the Iraqi government. We even armed some of them to help us against other militant groups. And they told our soldiers as soon as you leave we're using these weapons against the Shi'ites. Thank you very much.
This was never "mission accomplished". It never was going to be. As many predicted the most likely outcome was always going to be civil war and a partitioning of the country into three parts. And the likelihood that some of those parts might be more closely aligned to Iran, or more radical and militant than Sadaam had ever been. And now these idiots want to say it's time to turn to the crowd that made the mistakes and got us into that mess in the first place to "make it work".
If there weren't over 4,000 Americans dead, tens of thousands wounded and maimed, and trillions of dollars spent, those statements would be funny. But they aren't. So to John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and all the rest of that crowd, "have you at long last no shred of human decency"?
And one more thing to them as well - "shut the fuck up".
It is time for such a moment regarding the situation in Iraq. More specifically with the people coming out of the woodwork to blame the current mess on Obama and his administration. Mostly, I was thinking of John McCain, but it applies to the usual suspects. All of those who designed, sold and were cheerleaders for a war of choice that was doomed from the start.
McCain, his "Smithers" Lindsay Graham (fans of The Simpsons will understand that reference), John Bolton, Ari Fleisher, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, any conservative or mainstream pundit or "journalist" who sold us on weapons of mass destruction, mushroom clouds, links to al Queda, we will be greeted as liberators, the war will pay for itself, it will be over in a matter of weeks, months at the most, there will be no problems between Sunnis and Shias, anyof the people who peddled that garbage should not be given the time of day ever again.
And all those who scoffed at and ridiculed those who questioned the build up to war, or stood by silently while critics or skeptics were silenced, their patriotism questioned, the warnings to "watch what you say" were made, the Dixie Chicks were "dixie chicked", as Phil Donahue lost his show on MSNBC for questioning the war on terror and the need to invade Iraq, as a CIA agent was outed as political payback for her husband calling out the President for one of his intelligence lies, as people who predicted the chaos that came in the wake of the invasion and that we see again now, were driven to the margins, and you did or said nothing.
You were wrong. Dreadfully, disastrously wrong. The hippies, the liberals, the anti-war freaks got this right. And many professionals in State, Defense and intelligence communities. They knew the intelligence didn't add up. They knew the history of the region and warned and predicted the insurgency and the sectarian violence then and now should we go in and destabilize the area.
But who do we see and hear from now? Largely the list from above, especially McCain and Graham. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. The surge never worked. We went in and paid off the Sunni tribal and militia leaders to stop fighting us and the Iraqi government. We even armed some of them to help us against other militant groups. And they told our soldiers as soon as you leave we're using these weapons against the Shi'ites. Thank you very much.
This was never "mission accomplished". It never was going to be. As many predicted the most likely outcome was always going to be civil war and a partitioning of the country into three parts. And the likelihood that some of those parts might be more closely aligned to Iran, or more radical and militant than Sadaam had ever been. And now these idiots want to say it's time to turn to the crowd that made the mistakes and got us into that mess in the first place to "make it work".
If there weren't over 4,000 Americans dead, tens of thousands wounded and maimed, and trillions of dollars spent, those statements would be funny. But they aren't. So to John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and all the rest of that crowd, "have you at long last no shred of human decency"?
And one more thing to them as well - "shut the fuck up".
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