Steve Inskeep (Dick Cheney stay-behind @NPR) justifies the Iraq War...

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with a little help from his friend Richard Perle...

@NPRinskeep: 10 years later, Richard Perle explains Iraq war this way: "When you wake up on September 11...you do the obvious thing." @MorningEdition

https://twitter.com/NPRinskeep/status/314351789946327040

@NPRinskeep: More Perle: "easy to say" 10 years later WMD assumptions were wrong; contends it was reasonable concern at the time. @MorningEdition

https://twitter.com/NPRinskeep/status/314352294693052416

@NPRinskeep: More Perle, on Iraq: "You can say we left it broken. I think we left it open for opportunity." @MorningEdition

https://twitter.com/NPRinskeep/status/314352793785876481

To which Oliver Willis @owillis retweets the perfect response...

@phillipanderson: WHY THE FUCK IS @NPR ASKING RICHARD PERLE ABOUT *ANYTHING* ESPECIALLY ABOUT IRAQ?

https://twitter.com/phillipanderson/status/314352529918021632

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1895711

[deutsey]

1. Fuck you, Steve Inskeep

I'm sure this lapdog is getting a nice pat on the head from his masters.

Reading this bullshit only further reaffirms my decision to stop listening to and supporting NPR back in 2000.

[bullwinkle428]

2. Perle, when asked "Was it worth it?", replied "That's not a reasonable question."

Richard Perle is a despicable low-life.

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3. Inskeep: "Afghans haven't gotten bent out of shape about a US soldier massacring sixteen of them"

More gems from Steve Inskeep...

America's 300 Year-Long Lucky Streak Continues

One of the great things about being American is we're just lucky. Lots of countries have killed millions of people, and it made their families really angry and sad. So the countries sometimes had to feel bad about it. But when WE'VE done it, we've always been lucky enough to do it to people who turned out not to mind being killed. So no harm done.

Most recently, Steve Inskeep of NPR pointed out that Afghans haven't gotten all bent out of shape about a U.S. soldier massacring sixteen of them, because "human life is already cheap" way over there.

That's great journalism. However, it would have been even better if Inskeep had found out whether life is not just cheap in Afghanistan, but also plentiful, like it was in Vietnam:

WILLIAM WESTMORELAND: The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful. Life is cheap in the Orient...

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=34459

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4. NPR is CELEBRATING the 10 year ANNIVERSARY of the US invasion of Iraq

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/20/1195552/-Architects-of-Iraq-disaster-still-running-from-history

[RZM]

5. Why are they asking Perle?

Well, he was one of the architects of the war. So that's one type of person you ask about it. It's like saying nobody should have asked McNamara about Vietnam.

[tanyev]

6. The obvious thing?

You mean like a thorough investigation of U.S. intelligence failures that allowed it to happen and going after the organization responsible?

Because that seems a lot more obvious to me than invading a country that had nothing to do with the attack.

[Judi Lynn]

7. We always need to remember something like Richard Perle was used in our own government. n/t