An Impolitic Question

I have a question I’d love to ask the Joe Kleins, Tom Friedmans, and Paul Bermans of the world:

You have made lots of money spouting your pro-Iraq-War wankery. Have you given any cash to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi families whose relatives you helped kill and whose lives you helped destroy?

I wonder what the answer would be?  More wankery after the jump.

Today, Yglesias rightly takes Paul Berman to task for pretending he’s been against the war all along:

Spencer Ackerman catches Paul Berman trying to convince us that he was against the war in Iraq. Berman, in this incident, tries to chalk up the fact that many people think he supported the war to the fact “that afterward I haven’t made a career of running around saying I told you so.” Did he tell us so? The answer is that no, he didn’t. Indeed, he’s been telling us he told us so while simultaneously bragging that he hasn’t been telling us so since at least November 2007.

But the record is clear — Berman didn’t tell us so. He supported the war. He offered some caveats, yes, but they were caveats to his argument in favor of the war. Not only that, but as I showed in my earlier post on this subject, Berman was happy to be counted as a war supporter back in 2004 when he still thought that put him on the right side of history.

And just in case you aren’t completely disgusted by our chattering class, Thomas Friedman has something for you to suck on:

Did Paul Berman Oppose the War? [atlantic.com]

 

Comments

[Batocchio]

You nailed it. I am so sick of these vain idiots, most of all because they'll do the same thing all over again.

[JollyRoger]

They also do a lot of crying about abortion. If you get a chance, drop by their houses and see how many of those non-aborted babies they've adopted.