What A Noble Man

Pardon me for not posting about the terrorism in London. I've always seen this blog as a chance to write about things that interest me, but not necessarily about the most important items in the news. Blogs that have hourly updates are the places to catch how people feel about the latest. I've written about terrorism in the past, and no doubt will again. Just not today.

But I will write about the war in Iraq. Over at The Huffington Post, Harry Shearer discusses the Judith Miller case. Like David Edelstein, he believes she helped get Americans and Iraqis killed with her reporting. Let's review the facts.

We invaded Iraq and kicked out Saddam Hussein. We were there for several reasons, but certainly weren't going to leave until Iraq was stable. (If there had been a lot of WMD, we might have had more death, but that's irrelevant to the hatred of Shearer and Edelstein.) We searched for WMD and didn't find too many, though Miller mistakenly reported we had. Her mistakes were a huge embarrassment to the pro-war side, and helped turn many people who didn't understand the WMD thing (Saddam hadn't followed the UN rules about WMD to begin with which was a casus belli if the UN had ever been serious; Iraq was ready and able to make WMD in almost no time and was actively seeking nuclear weapons; Iraq was waiting for the heat to die down since it knew it had friends who would double-cross the US in the UN) against the war. Even if she temporarily (and unintentionally) fooled anyone, there's no way it lengthened the war, since we were in the middle of things anyway.

Yet Shearer and his ilk continue to mock a woman now serving time in jail for sticking to her beliefs. I say this every time I discuss Shearer: What a noble man! He has voluntarily given up humor just to broadcast anti-war propaganda.

(If you want to read something about London, check out what Tom Hayden has to say in the Post. It is so mindbogglingly stupid it will make people retroactively support the war in Vietnam.)

PS Before posting, I often run the entry through the spellchecker provided by Blogspot. One word it didn't know? "Blog."

Columbus Guy says: There's a spellchecker?