Leslie Gelb - dean of the foreign policy establishment, lion of the Council on Foreign Relations:
> My initial support for the war [in Iraq] was symptomatic of
> unfortunate tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the
> disposition and incentives to support wars to retain political and
> professional credibility. We ‘experts’ have a lot to fix about
> ourselves, even as we ‘perfect’ the media. We must redouble our
> commitment to independent thought, and embrace, rather than cast
> aside, opinions and facts that blow the common—often wrong—wisdom
> apart. Our democracy requires nothing less.
Of course we all know this is a cover story. His real motive was to increase the rate of profit.
SA