I really have to stop watching MSNBC. It's bad for my blood-pressure, and bad for my wide-screen HDTV, which has absorbed and withstood more Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow-provoked thrown objects by me than I care to remember.
The latest outrage and source of my distress is a wretchedly mendacious sampling of political pornography titled: “Hubris: the Selling of the Iraq War,” hosted by the insufferable Rachel Maddow, which aired last Friday evening.
Viewers of Hubris will undoubtedly learn much. They will learn that Bush “knowingly” took us to war based on lies about Saddam purchasing uranium from Niger, and acquiring aluminum tubes to build nuclear weapons, and that Vice President Cheney aided and abetted this deception by repeatedly attempting to link Saddam to 9/11 by alleging a meeting between 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence operative in Prague prior to the attacks even though the intelligence community had long since debunked any such meeting. Viewers will also learn that Bush, Cheney and Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld persisted in their irrational, pathological determination to wage war on Iraq even though they “knew” Saddam had no WMD—and that those wise, prescient souls in the Intelligence Community had vainly told them as much, all to no avail.
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