LOL, Judith

Like many others, she didn't understand the role of journalism back in 2003 when she worked for the NY Times, and she still hasn't learned her lesson.

To question. To seek the truth as an upholder of the Fourth Estate.

This woman is supporting the elite and the lie, a losing proposition.

This is a pathetic Wall Street Journal piece by the maven of germ warfare, Judith Miller.  She demonstrates how an acquiescent, influential writer with too close ties to real power got it wrong--but alas, she is still blaming others for her reportorial incompetence.

She has never met G.W. Bush, but so what?  In 2008 she found a new job after the Times self-corrected.

I cite this because I once wrote to an Oregon congressman and pleaded with him to not vote in favor of the Iraq War because the jury was still out on WMD for all but the hawks in the White House.

"Read Germs," he protested my intransigence.  Never mind that many had already debunked that Judith Miller tome as it related to Iraq. (Arms inspectors knew Hussein had killed innocents with American-purchased gas.  They also figured he had ended the campaign.  But who wanted to listen to that enlightening fact?)

Well, I learned my lesson. There was no logic in attempting to convince a corporate shill that the threat was exaggerated and hysterical.  That congressman had the war fever and was unapproachable. He'd read too much Judith, who was now his ally--the ally of a corrupt administration.

And of course his justification of the invasion/occupation/mayhem adapted along with the others'. The US had invaded for a lot of reasons the partisans initially forgot to mention.

The war was now, you know, about freedom...

His crowd still votes for him every two years, the obviously overwhelmingly stupid farts who live in the hinterlands of my great state.

The case for WMD was indeed manufactured, as many have subsequently noted--with the exception of Judith Miller here, who is lucky enough, I suppose, to push this piece off on a sympathetic rag.

4/9 Update:  About her new book, a "memoir."


TS