[unknownblogger]

I would have posted this to the news section, but it comes from my blog, so I couldn't. Spread this around, as this is absolutely crazy. Peter Arnett was the man fired from CNN in 2003 for telling Iraqi TV 10 days into the war that our war plans had failed.

[Darkwolf377]

Arnett? Is he writing for a mimeographed communist workers' rag or something?

Talking about discrediting Arnett reminds me of the line in the Odd Couple about Felix's charred meatloaf: "I'd toss it in the incinerator but it won't burn twice."

[Duke Nukum]

Peter Arnett! Now there's a nearly forgotten name from the dust bin of History.

[A.A. Cunningham]

[unknownblogger]

The thread is sort of mistitled; it should be "Peter Arnett Calls the Iraq WMD issue 'Bush's Gulf of Tonkin'." See what happens when I post late?

[elbucko]

"I think historians will look at the WMD scare as Bush's Gulf of Tonkin..."

I disagree. Historians, worthy of the title, will look back upon invading Iraq as Bush's "D-Day". Just as Jefferson was wise for engaging the Barbary Pirates to the consternation of the European Powers of the time, so is Bush's wise in taking on the oil wealthy dictators of the Middle East. A similar, seminal, act to Jeffersons. Peter Arnett will not even be a footnote.

[HowDareYouQuestionMy]

FYI, I heard a moon-bat on my local NPR station blame Arnett's firing on an email campaign from FreeRepublic, a "militant Republican" website.

Wow! Militant! Do I get promoted to lieutenant or something?