Simon Maloy of Salon writes an excellent op-ed entitled
Stop treating war-crazy buffoons as experts! They got it wrong, remember? Maloy says after "experts" like Paul Wolfowitz and Bill Kristol and the rest of the neocons got nearly every prediction they made about the Iraq war completely wrong the last time, they "should be pariahs. Instead they are on Sunday show round tables."
In an entertaining rhetorical flourish, Maloy asserts that if we need a single moment to epitomize the depravity of "elite outlets (failure) to act as agents of accountability," David Gregory asking Paul Wolfowitz on Meet the Press what we should do about the situation with Iraq would do to trick.
Wolfowitz, as deputy secretary of defense from 2001 to 2005, was one of the chief visionaries and supporters of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. And he got just about everything wrong, from the cost of the war to the presence of WMD. And he doesn’t particularly care. In an interview with the Sunday Times last March, Wolfowitz made the argument that even though they got it wrong on WMD in 2003, everything they said was happening (but wasn’t) would likely have happened later. “We would very likely either have had to go through this whole scenario all over but probably with higher costs for having delayed, or we’d be in a situation today where not only Iran was edging towards nuclear weapons but so was Iraq and also Libya.”
What price did Wolfowitz pay for his part in the biggest American foreign policy disaster of that last generation? George Bush nominated him to the presidency of the World Bank. While at the World Bank he violated ethics rules and caused a scandal that paralyzed the institution. He was forced to resign after governments around the world called for him to be fired.
Everything Paul Wolfowitz has touched in the last decade has turned into an international catastrophe. And yet there he was on “Meet the Press” this weekend, asked to offer his take on what to do now that the rolling disaster he helped set in motion has reached yet another bloody nadir.
Simon Maloy notes that when asked about their previous positions, the neocons claim that the disaster in Iraq War is so urgent that "we can't waste time arguing" about the past.
It's great to see others holding there feet to the fire. Rachel Maddow devoted a substantial segment of her show to this topic and was the one who called my attention to this article which she highlighted. Rachel also showed this petition page from Daily Kos. Please sign our petition.
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I'm adding these paragraph to our "Neocon Hall of Shame Project," and I received so much valuable feedback and suggestions for additions I'm still updating our last list which is at the bottom of this post from Sunday: Fox News' Shep Smith gives hawks a history lesson on their own role in starting idiotic war in Iraq