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Speaking of political intelligence ... take a little stroll with Alice through the American wonderland ... just for laughs
"This war [in Iraq] is the most important liberal, revolutionary U.S. democracy-building project since the Marshall Plan. ... it is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad." -- Thomas Friedman, much-acclaimed New York Times foreign-affairs analyst, November 2003[2]
"President Bush has placed human rights at the center of his foreign policy agenda in unprecedented ways." --
Michael Gerson, columnist for the Washington Post, 2007[3]
The war in Iraq "is one of the noblest endeavors the United States, or any great power, has ever undertaken." --
David Brooks, New York Times columnist and National Public Radio (NPR) commentator (2007)[4]
If this is what leading American public intellectuals believe and impart to their audiences, is it any wonder that the media can short circuit people's critical faculties altogether? It should as well be noted that these three journalists are all with "liberal" media.
And when Hillary Clinton says in the January 31 debate with Barack Obama: "We bombed them [Iraq] for days in 1998 because Saddam Hussein threw out inspectors," and the fact is that the UN withdrew its weapons inspectors because the Clinton administration had made it clear that it was about to start bombing Iraq ...
Obama didn't correct her. Neither did any of the eminent journalists on the panel, though this particular piece of disinformation has been repeated again and again in the media, and has been corrected again and again by those on the left. Comrades, we have our work cut out for us. The chorus needs us. America needs us. Keep preaching.