Greenwald posts Thomas Friedman interview about the Iraq War where he tells millions of people to 'suck on this'

twitter ^ | Apr 10 | Glenn Greenwald

[RandFan]

@ggreenwald

Here's Friedman's full answer. It was from May, 2003. Charlie Rose asked Friedman -- one of America's most strident war advocates -- whether, given everything that was known, including the likely WMD fraud, he still believed the Iraq War was justified:

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[Steve_Seattle]

I never thought of Friedman as a neo-con, but as a traditional liberal/leftie.

[RandFan]

I’m not gonna have a go at you Chuck..

Nation building was always going to be the costly mistake.

I also thought there’s a fair amount of jingoism involved in selling the war.

Don’t think Tony Blair or Bush will ever admit they were wrong not even on their death beds.

[montag813]

Imagine if it hadn’t been spent at all! We’d have 5-8 trillion less in debt. We don’t need to government to build out energy infrastructure. We just need them to get the hell out of the way.