Lying weasels

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MARTIN SCHRAM:

A parade of weasels

By MARTIN SCHRAM, Scripps Howard News Service
Last updated: January 17th, 2006 08:29 PM (PST)

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After leaving Iraq for good, Bremer said in a Sept. 17, 2004, DePauw University speech: "The single most important change - the one thing that would have improved the situation -would have been having more troops in Iraq at the beginning and throughout."

Naturally, then-Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry quoted Bremer's statement. Then, three weeks after he'd spoken candidly to the kids at DePauw, Bremer said just the opposite to the rest of us. In an October 2004 New York Times op-ed, he wrote: "For the task before us now, I believe we have enough troops in Iraq."

Just over 232 U.S. troops had been killed in Iraq when Bremer first arrived there. Today, more than 2,000 American troops have been killed in Iraq.

Late in Sunday's interview, Bremer, trying to justify his years of weasel-riding, actually got to the heart of what was so wrong with the conduct of the parade of image-polishing ex-officials. "You don't expect a government person to come on and say everything is wrong unless he's resigned," Bremer volunteered. "If you have real concerns and you can't support a president's policy ... then you resign."

Exactly. There is no greater public service than that of an official who sees what is horribly wrong - and resigns in public protest, so we can fix it in time to save lives. Too many have paid too high a price because a few ex-officials chose to ride on, keeping mum about the wrongs they knew - or even worse, misleading us - as they rode on.


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http://www.thenewstribune.com/24hour/opinions/story/3082969p-11782629c.html

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1. "a gelded white weasel" about sums it up

Isn't this guy writing a book on Iraq is kinda like "Brownie" writing a book on Katrina?

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2. Weasel is to polite a word for the disservice to and sometimes danger

these people put our country in. Where has honesty and integrity gone? Playing with people's lives for monetary gain or out of indifference is absolutely despicable.