The Blame Game

By Cernig

I confess I'm feeling a bit grumpy today - I'm irked by all the attention Scottie McLellan's tell-all memoir is getting.

I mean...yes, I read the Politico's report and I ruefully chuckled some at McLellan's smackdowns of the Bushies. But come on, get real.

McLellan and all the rest of the Bush administration's memoir-writers have, by and large, told us nothing of substance we didn't already know or suspect. Not one of them had the cojones to speak up while still part of the administration but they have all tried to shed blame themselves while casting it upon their former colleagues. At least we know that, if trials are ever opened at The Hague, it will be easy enough to get them all tattling about each other but did we really expect rats to act any differently? In the meantime, political chatterers have yet another distraction from what's going on right now.

I find it makes me nauseous - so much energy spent over exactly who lied where in the run-up to invading Iraq while so little is spent seriously examining the current narrative for attacking Iran running largely unchallenged in the stenographic media. "Deja vu all over again" doesn't even begin to cover it.

Comments

[nait deth]

You're exactly right Cernig, and I had the very same reaction while driving into work this morning (NPR). I wanted to retch Exactly the same with Douggie Feith's 'tell all.' Exactly the same with Tennant's 'tell all' Those that spew propaganda are just as culpable as those who wrote it. A LOT of blame falls on us, the American people, for being duped by such obvious charlatans. That still doesn't excuse them.

'Did we really expect rats to act any differently?' that sums it up perfectly right there.

- nait

[Kat]

Agreed, Cernig. But I think PSoTD is even grumpier:

"If there was only a way for me to continually drop bucketloads of turds on Scott McClellan, I might be able to communicate the feeling I have towards him and his book right now."

Nait deth said, "A LOT of blame falls on us, the American people, for being duped by such obvious charlatans."

Unfortunately, even those of us who were duped by the Iraq propaganda, but have since woken up, continue to be duped by propaganda about other issues - such as drilling in Anwar being the solution to high oil prices. Like Bush, some of us have no capacity for reflection, on themselves or the issues.

[Carol]

yes, this pretty much sums up how I feel about the "story." I hope no one buys his book. What a loser.

I do, however, highly recommend Ron Suskind's book "The Price of Loyalty- the Education of Paul O'Neill." Paul O'Neill, the 1st Secretary of the Treasury, was axed very early on because his morals didn't jive with what Cheney and Rove were trying to accomplish. It's an amazing book, which not only offers an insiders view to the beginning of the nightmare (of this administration), but also an insiders view to Alan Greenspan. Just read it and try not to scream as you are scrounging for spare change to buy a loaf of bread.