Bob Herbert Reaches End of Rope in 'NYT': Labels 'Slaughter' in Iraq 'Criminal'

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One day after fellow New York Times columnist (and former Iraq war supporter) Thomas Friedman came out against the coming U.S. escalation there, Bob Herbert labeled the enterprise "criminal" and called on politicians to end it.

"There must be a leader somewhere who can shake the U.S. out of this tragic hypnotic state, who can see that it is beyond crazy to continue our involvement in this war indefinitely, to sacrifice another 1,000 young lives, and then another thousand after that," Herbert wrote. He called for others to find the "courage" to speak out, although his own paper's editorial page (and most others) has not yet clearly come out against the likely new "surge" in U.S. troops.

Herbert concluded:

"The war has been an exercise in futility and mind-boggling incompetence, and yet our involvement continues — with no end in sight, no plans for withdrawal, no idea of where we might be headed — as if the U.S. had fallen into some kind of bizarrely destructive trance from which it is unable to awaken....

"This war is not worth fighting. And if there were ever serious talk about enacting a draft or raising taxes to fight it, you’d see quickly enough that the vast majority of Americans would not find it worth fighting.


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003527576


the article:Another Thousand Lives
http://donkeyod.wordpress.com/2007/01/03/another-thousand-lives/

[illinoisprogressive]

1. Thanks for this.

[Greeby]

2. Oh, just the far-left librul media trying to undermine the war effort

:sarcasm: but I'll bet you anything some Repuke will say that during the One-Minute Speeches session tomorrow

[Erika]

3. Yet another guy with guts to tell W to stop this insane war

Maybe his core will finally get enough guts to tell him the same. I doubt it, the freepers have gone hypnotic with W. They would follow him off a cliff to a certain death.

But damn them, they don't have the right to condemn our military to a useless cause.

[ninkasi]

4. I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Herbert

He is 100% right about this travesty, Bush's war of choice. I hope that there will be a leader who will get us out of this catastrophic farce. Bob Herbert is one of the few journalists I always agree with. Why can't we have men like him leading our country, instead of the criminal members of the Bush administration?