May 9, 2008...7:11 am
Olbermann: The point of the war in Iraq is to make sure there IS war
When Keith Olbermann offered an overview on Wednesday of recent Bush administration scandals, he touched on the failure to protect whistleblowers and the refusal to reappoint the one member of the Federal Election Commission who spoke out against John McCain’s attempt to opt out of federal campaign financing after using that financing as a loan guarantee.
But Olbermann’s harshest comments were directed against Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, whom Olbermann described as “one of the administration’s consulting dumbasses, who got us into the quagmire in Iraq and is now pushing hard for a twin disaster in Iran.”
Boot insisted in an online debate Tuesday that the surge has worked because “civilian deaths were down more than 80%, US deaths more than 60%, between September 2006 and March 2008.”
However, Boot also argued in the Wall Street Journal on Monday that the jump in American fatalities in April “could be a sign that tough combat is under way that will lead to the enemy’s defeat and the creation of a more peaceful environment in the future.”
“And there it is, in all its beautiful, elliptical, symmetrical, asinine Bushian glory,” Olbermann concluded.
“If fewer Americans die in Iraq, that’s because the surge is working. If more Americans die in Iraq, that’s also because the surge is working. And if the surge is working, the troops have to stay longer to solidify its gains. And if the surge isn’t working, the troops have to stay longer to make sure it starts working.”
“And the point of the war in Iraq is to make sure there is a war in Iraq.”
3 Comments
May 9, 2008 at 7:55 am
Thank’s for posting this nwmuse, missed a lot with my cable being out…..Have a good Friday all, if possible….Blessings
May 9, 2008 at 8:50 am
It doesn’t get any clearer than that.
Wake up, people!!
May 9, 2008 at 9:23 am
Many of us have tried to warn the public that a Never-Ending War was the intent from the beginning of Bush’s first term. He had no excuse to start one until 9/11 happened. The attacks of 9/11 gave them everything they needed to start sending troops virtually anywhere in the world. The “threat” was vague and nebulous enough, and although they would never be able to prove themsleves completely right about the threat, thanks to an intense level of secrecy (where even the people who praise the administration have to do it off the record for fear of reprisal) nobody would be able to easily prove them wrong, either.
And they could continue to have, for as long as they desired, a war for the sake of having a war. And, although it proves nothing in and of itself, let us all remember that the people who want for this war to go on forever are very powerful people who also have connections to groups like the Carlysle Group, which makes its money investing in companies that make military weapons. Why, somone with a conscience might begin to think there’s a conflict of interest here. That someone is obviously not in this administration.
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