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Date: July 19, 2007 9:12:29 PM PDT
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Subject: Keith Olbermann to George Bush: "It's YOUR War, YOU Go and
Fight It"
Olbermann:
YOU go to Iraq and fight, Mr. President
Bush’s latest choice of scapegoat
--Hillary Clinton-- boggles the mind
MSNBC video**
Special Comment: Blame Hillary?
Olbermann says the choice
to scapegoat Sen. Clinton is unfathomable:
"Go fight YOUR war yourself,
Mr. President."
**http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=fac6440c-
b8b8-4d0a-8243-dae60b2def7f&p=Source_Countdown&t=c1149&rf=http://
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19859124/&fg=
SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
MSNBC, July 19, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19859124/
It is one of the great, dark, evil lessons, of history.
A country — a government — a military machine — can screw up a war
seven ways to Sunday. It can get thousands of its people killed. It
can risk the safety of its citizens. It can destroy the fabric of
its nation.
But as long as it can identify a scapegoat, it can regain or even
gain power.
The Bush administration has opened this Pandora’s Box about Iraq.
It has found its scapegoats: Hillary Clinton and us.
The lies and terror tactics with which it deluded this country into
war — they had nothing to do with the abomination that Iraq has
become. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The selection of the wrong war, in the wrong time, in the wrong
place — the most disastrous geopolitical tactic since Austria-
Hungary attacked Serbia in 1914 and destroyed itself in the process
— that had nothing to do with the overwhelming crisis Iraq has
become. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The criminal lack of planning for the war — the total “jump-off-a-
bridge-and-hope-you-can-fly” tone to the failure to anticipate what
would follow the deposing of Saddam Hussein — that had nothing to
do with the chaos in which Iraq has been enveloped. It isn’t Mr.
Bush’s fault.
The utter, blinkered idiocy of “staying the course,” of sending
Americans to Iraq and sending them a second time, and a third and a
fourth, until they get killed or maimed — the utter de-
prioritization of human life, simply so a politician can avoid
having to admit a mistake — that had nothing to do with the tens of
thousand individual tragedies darkening the lives of American
families, forever. It isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault.
The continuing, relentless, remorseless, corrupt and cynical
insistence that this conflict somehow is defeating or containing or
just engaging the people who attacked us on 9/11, the total “Alice
Through the Looking Glass” quality that ignores that in Iraq, we
have made the world safer for al-Qaida — it isn’t Mr. Bush’s fault!
The fault, brought down, as if a sermon from this mount of
hypocrisy and slaughter by a nearly anonymous undersecretary of
defense, has tonight been laid on the doorstep of... Sen. Hillary
Clinton and, by extension, at the doorstep of every American (the
now-vast majority of us) who have dared to criticize this war or
protest it or merely ask questions about it or simply, plaintively,
innocently, honestly, plead, “Don’t take my son; don’t take my
daughter.”
Sen. Clinton has been sent — and someone has leaked to The
Associated Press — a letter, sent in reply to hers asking if there
exists an actual plan for evacuating U.S. troops from Iraq.
This extraordinary document was written by an undersecretary of
defense named Eric Edelman.
“Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces
from Iraq,” Edelman writes, “reinforces enemy propaganda that the
United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are
perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia.”
Edelman adds: “Such talk understandably unnerves the very same
Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks.”
A spokesman for the senator says Mr. Edelman’s remarks are “at once
both outrageous and dangerous.” Those terms are entirely
appropriate and may, in fact, understate the risk the Edelman
letter poses to our way of life and all that our fighting men and
women are risking, have risked, and have lost, in Iraq.
After the South was defeated in our Civil War, the scapegoat was
Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and the ideas of the “Lost
Cause” and “Jim Crow” were born.
After the French were beaten by the Prussians in 1870 and 1871, it
was the imaginary “Jewish influence” in the French Army general
staff, and there was born 30 years of self-destructive anti-
Semitism, culminating in the horrific Dreyfus case.
After the Germans lost the First World War, it was the “back-
stabbers and profiteers” at home, on whose lives the National
Socialists rose to prominence in the succeeding decades and whose
accused membership eventually wound up in torture chambers and
death camps.
And after the generation before ours, and leaders of both political
parties, escalated and re-escalated and carpet-bombed and re-carpet-
bombed Vietnam, it was the protest movement and Jane Fonda and — as
late as just three years ago — Sen. John Kerry who were assigned
the kind of blame with which no rational human being could concur,
and yet which still, across vast sections of our political
landscape, resonates unchallenged and accepted.
And now Mr. Bush, you have picked out your own Jefferson Davis,
your own Dreyfus, your own “profiteer” — your own scapegoat.
Not for the sake of this country.
Not for the sake of Iraq.
Not even for the sake of your own political party.
But for the sake of your own personal place in history.
But in reaching for that place, you have guaranteed yourself
tonight not honor, but infamy.
In fact, you have condemned yourself to a place among that
remarkably small group of Americans whom Americans cannot forgive
-- those who have sold this country out and who have declared their
enmity to the people at whose pleasure they supposedly serve.
A scapegoat, sir, might be forgivable, if you hadn’t just happened
to choose a prospective presidential nominee of the opposition party.
And the accusation of spreading “enemy propaganda that the United
States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to
have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia” might be some day atoned
for, if we all didn’t know — you included, and your generals and
the Iraqis — that we are leaving Iraq, and sooner rather than
later, and we are doing it even if to do so requires, first, that
you must be impeached and removed as president of the United
States, sooner rather than later.
You have set this government at war against its own people and then
blamed those very people when they say, “Enough.”
And thus it crystallizes, Mr. Bush.
When Civil War Gen. Ambrose Burnside ordered a disastrous attack on
Fredericksburg in which 12,000 of his men were killed, he had to be
physically restrained from leading the next charge himself.
After the First Lord of the British Admiralty, Winston Churchill,
authored and enabled the disastrous Gallipoli campaign that saw a
quarter-million Allied soldiers cut down in the First World War,
Churchill resigned his office and took a commission as a front-line
officer in the trenches of France.
Those are your new role models, Mr. Bush.
Let your minions try to spread the blame to the real patriots here,
who have sought only to undo the horrors you have wrought since 2002.
Let them try it, until the end of time.
Though the words might be erased from a million books and a billion
memories, though the world be covered knee-deep in your lies, the
truth shall prevail.
This, sir, is YOUR war.
Sen. Clinton has reinforced enemy propaganda? Made it impossible
for you to get your ego-driven, blood-steeped win in Iraq?
Then take it into your own hands, Mr. Bush.
Go to Baghdad now and fulfill, finally, your military service
obligations.
Go there and fight, your war, yourself.
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