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• Sunday, November 30, 2008 04:06 PM

  Who is it that is charged with the responsibility for keeping us informed and our government honest?

  Glenn Greenwald: [But with this intense Friedmanesque revisionism well underway -- whereby war cheerleaders like Friedman were Right and Good all along and it was only the incompetent Bush and Rumsfeld who ruined everything with their "bumbling" -- it seems increasingly likely that the opposite lesson will be learned. Attacking, invading and occupying other countries in order to change their governments to ones we prefer is the smart, wise and just thing to do. Friedman's term for it today is "collaborating with them to build progressive politics."]

  The “collaboration” and “progressive politics” Freidman refers to are responsible for the almost complete deliberate destruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, the violent deaths of well over a million Iraqi civilians, the forced dislocation of millions more and the proliferate, criminal spending on the privatization of war with money borrowed by America from China and shoveled into the maw of the American War Machine and the banking system that controls and finances it as fast as it can be printed.

  Freidman is only continuing in his role as a Paid Propagandist to Power by doing this his latest re-write of history. Let’s face it – disgraced and discredited, (which is what should be the fate of all the shameless and deliberate media liars who cheerleaded and bamboozled their fellow citizens into an illegal war that didn’t even benefit the US, (which it grievously injured in all ways), isn’t going to be the fate of this particular mountebank or any of the others who smeared this stain all over their tattered reputations. That would make them worthless to their handlers. Think how much has already been invested in them.

  And isn’t it disgraceful that Freidman and the rest are being paid handsomely to self-servingly rewrite history by those charged with the responsibility for keeping us informed and our government honest?

  That’s the kicker for me.

  —arthurdecco Read arthurdecco's other letters
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