Selective Amnesia (1 Viewer)

[danarhea]

"The pundits who sold the Iraq War change their tune and bury their records."

Seems these days that a great many of the pundits who predicted an American victory in Iraq are working as hard as they can to bury their own records before the American people, and changing the history of their support. A prime example is Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, who goes around telling people that he never supported the war, when in actuality, he was for it. Here is something Ledeen wrote in 2002, in a column dedicated to mocking Brent Scowcroft for opposing the war:

It’s always reassuring to hear Brent Scowcroft attack one’s cherished convictions; it makes one cherish them all the more. … So it’s good news when Scowcroft comes out against the desperately-needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein and the rest of the terror masters.

Ledeen is just one of many who want history to forget their involvement in supporting the Iraq war. My question to them is this: How stupid do they think the American people are?

Article is here.

 

[jfuh]

"The pundits who sold the Iraq War change their tune and bury their records."

Seems these days that a great many of the pundits who predicted an American victory in Iraq are working as hard as they can to bury their own records before the American people, and changing the history of their support. A prime example is Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, who goes around telling people that he never supported the war, when in actuality, he was for it. Here is something Ledeen wrote in 2002, in a column dedicated to mocking Brent Scowcroft for opposing the war:

Ledeen is just one of many who want history to forget their involvement in supporting the Iraq war. My question to them is this: How stupid do they think the American people are?

Article is here.

To answer your question, very, and with good reason - it's quite true. Most ppl won't remember.

 

[Goobieman]

Ledeen is just one of many who want history to forget their involvement in supporting the Iraq war. My question to them is this: How stupid do they think the American people are?

One must ask the same thing of the Dems who supported the war, voted for the war, lied to the Amercian people about Saddam's WMDs, etc.

That list is long and distonguished.

Why haven't these people had their feet held to the same flame?

 

[Simon W. Moon]

One must ask the same thing of the Democrats who supported the war, voted for the war, lied to the Amercian people about Saddam's WMDs, etc.
That list is long and distonguished.
Why haven't these people had their feet held to the same flame?

The list is long anyway.
Unfortunately, I see NO feet near any flame.

 

[Navy Seal Patriot]

On a small personal note, what sticks out in my mind right befoe the Iraq invasion was all the talk on my base on how the price of gas will be below a dollar shortly after the war; don't know if this was a plug in the media or talked about at other places for it, but I brought it up just recently with some of my friends that were present and not one said they remember promoting that or even remember it at all--but I remember them exactly doing that. Also, the BC said it to hundreds with many claps and excitement. Selective memory.

 

[Simon W. Moon]

On a small personal note, what sticks out in my mind right befoe the Iraq invasion was all the talk on my base on how the price of gas will be below a dollar shortly after the war; don't know if this was a plug in the media or talked about at other places for it, but I brought it up just recently with some of my friends that were present and not one said they remember promoting that or even remember it at all--but I remember them exactly doing that. Also, the BC said it to hundreds with many claps and excitement. Selective memory.

IIRC this appeared on the pages of National Review among other places

Frederick P. Leuffer on Oil and Iraq on NRO Financial

 

[danarhea]

IIRC this appeared on the pages of National Review among other places

Frederick P. Leuffer on Oil and Iraq on NRO Financial

Yea, I remember the pundits saying that it would be raining oil after this war. They are one of the main reasons that the left saw the war as a war for oil. Oil actually played only a very small part in the strategy. The war was about domination of the Middle East, according to the New American Century theory, which we all know has now been fully discredited. It's a multipolar world, but the Bushneviks just couldn't see it, and now America pays the price for the recklessness which sprang from their Machiavellian plans.

 

[jfuh]

One must ask the same thing of the Democrats who supported the war, voted for the war, lied to the Amercian people about Saddam's WMDs, etc.

That list is long and distonguished.

Why haven't these people had their feet held to the same flame?

What were the dems lie to the American ppl about WMDs?

 

[jujuman13]

IMHO I think that you are incorrect in saying that the US did not win the war.
The US led coalition was fighting what passed for the armed forces of Iraq, patently the US led coalition thrashed these ppl.
What the US led coalition has failed to do is to win the peace.
However I do tend to agree with the comments you make about various politicians having selective amnesia.
But this is true of all politicians who get elected on some stand or other, who are unable to have that stand adopted by congress.