[lbo-talk] I don't get it..

[Shane Taylor]

Michael Pollak wrote:
> The US and UK were alone in the world in saying
> the inspectors' reports were not trustworthy.  They
> didn't go to war on the basis of bad intelligence.
> They went to war on the basis of no intelligence.
> They simply refused to believe the very public
> evidence that the entire world had before it and
> that everyone else believed.  Their only
> counterevidence was their own convictions.

[....]


> When now either those policy makers or the media
> claim now that "no one thought different" it simply
> reveals them as people who live in a cult-bubble of
> their own convictions, for whom the world outside is
> an illusion.

Reminds me of a scene from Charlie Rose last night.  Some Brit journo
from the Times (name escapes me) had spent 30 days with Blair leading up
to the war, and the Times man in Washington were on.  One of them was
going on about how sincere Blair is about the existence of WMDs, how he
hasn't lost confidence in himself, yadda.  Charlie, true to form, speaks
of the "paradox" of it all: By boldly acting on principle in the face of
peer pressure from European leaders and public opinion, he gets smeared
as a poodle to Bush.  Apparently, this blew Charlie's mind.

-- Shane

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