Frank Rich:When Godfathers Of War Speak Of Never Leaving A Fallen Comrade-They Speak Of One Another"

[kpete]

Rich: Scooter's 'Sopranos' go to the mattresses Ron Brynaert
Published: Saturday June 16, 2007


Rich...concludes, "When the godfathers of this war speak of never leaving 'a fallen comrade' on the battlefield in Iraq, as Ajami writes of Libby, they are speaking first and foremost of one another."

Excerpts from Rich's column:

"As the Iraq war careens toward a denouement as black, unresolved and terrifying as David Chase's inspired 'Sopranos' finale, the mob in the capital deserves at least equal attention," Rich writes.

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Among those contributing to the 373 pages of what thesmokinggun.com calls "Scooter Libby Love Letters" are self-identified liberals and Democrats, a few journalists (including a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine) and a goodly sample of those who presided over the Iraq catastrophe or cheered it on. This is a documentary snapshot of the elite Washington mob of our time.

Like the scripts for "The Sopranos," the letters are not without mordant laughs. Henry Kissinger writes a perfunctory two paragraphs, of which the one about Libby rather than himself seems an afterthought. James Carville co-signs a letter by Mary Matalin tediously detailing Libby's devotion to organizing trick-or-treat festivities for administration children spending a post-9/11 Halloween at an "undisclosed location."

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Rich_Scooters_Sopranos_go_to_mattresses_0616.html

[Demeter]

1. In Other Words: A List of Conspirators

How convenient for us that they self-identified. How stupid of them!