Sometimes intellectual integrity pops up even among the drones of the right. Sort of.
Crooks and Liars captures George Will looking exasperated on "This Week" over Cheney's refusal to acknowledge the fubars in Iraq.
... The great fact of those eight years is we went to war—big war, costly war—under false pretenses. And…to write a memoir in which you say essentially nothing seriously went wrong…
Yeah, fine. But C&L goes on to clobber Will for his own lack of integrity.
Every appearance on This Week offers up the opportunity for Will to apologize for his usual wrongness, but I digress.
This is just another example of the after-the-fact tacit admissions of the right wing--who spent the entire decade castigating and criticizing the left for questioning why we were in Iraq, mind you--that the Bush administration did lie us into a war of choice against a nation that posed no threat. But where's the apology for that from George Will, huh?
Weekly appearances on a national news show for the last 28 years and a twice-weekly column since 1978 and you'd think a simple apology--"The left was right about invading Iraq" --would not only be in order, but mentioned at some point in all the platforms Will is privileged to have.
Will has been part of the problem for decades. That prissy little man is probably responsible for as many rips in the social and political fabric of the US as anyone.
