THEY (WE) TOLD YOU SO!

Yes, back in 2002 and early 2003, MILLIONS of us said this war against Iraq was a total disaster of an idea. I specifically said it was immoral, illegal and very, very stupid. (I was wrong on that last part: it was oh-so-breathtakingly-stupid.) I lost friends over that, and I lost respect for a lot of people who swallowed the idiocy that the Bush administration and the corporate media was putting out. I will always remember the idiots on CNN going to the anti-war protests and reporting that the protestors were saying “NO BLOOD FOR OIL” and that the protestors could not explain it better than that! One guy even said he wasn’t sure what they were protesting against! Well, I wish the CNN guy would have PRETENDED that he was a reporter and gone and ASKED THEM!

Today, the same idiots who got it all wrong on WMDs and the danger of terrorists in Iraq are the same ones who get to be experts on what we should do now! As a matter of fact, the longer you have been wrong, the more they listen to you!

Krugman address this issue of who was right and how we should treat them today:

“We should honor these people for their wisdom and courage. We should also ask why anyone who didn’t raise questions about the war — or, at any rate, anyone who acted as a cheerleader for this march of folly — should be taken seriously when he or she talks about matters of national security.”

Yes, anyone in public office who said that they believed in the WMDs in Iraq is either A TOOL OR A FOOL.

Either way, we should not re-elect them to office.

And any media person who said that they believed in WMDs in Iraq is also either A TOOL OR A FOOL.

Either way, they should shut up.

And yet, today, rather than listen to the ones who got it right, they only listen to those who got it wrong and who consistently get it wrong. And therefore, this hideous and illegal and immoral and oh-so-breathtakingly stupid war drags on.

THEY TOLD YOU SO! And so did I.