Those who think Iraq War sparks terror are "despicable," says Friedman

[DemsUnite]

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2598

[Beaver Tail]

1. Looks like the excuse maker is Friedman.

Of course if others do it we call it terrorism. If we do it we call it War.

[wtmusic]

2. Friedman believes Muslims should just behave

and sign on to our vision of world domination (he's gunning for a nice, cushy desk job in the Fourth Reich).

[still_one]

3. WHAT AN ASS

he helped push this crap, and he has just as much blood on his hands as the administration

The NY times deserves all the crap they are getting for misleading the public into the Iraq war, allowing miller, and freidman to push it

maybe he should take another trip to Saudi Arabia to see how they really feel

[GreenArrow]

4. not nearly as despicable as those

who earn their living by telling lies and planting deceit.

[CJCRANE]

5. "Despicable":

1) Invading a country based on lies
2) Being an apologist for a war based on lies
3) Lying about the predictable blowback from said war

[CJCRANE]

6. delete

[CJCRANE]

7. I'd like to see him

say that face to face with the head of the British intelligence services who advised before the Iraq war that it would increase the terrorist threat.

(Not to mention most of the British public).

[joemurphy]

8. Isn't "dethpicable" a Daffy Duck word? n/t

[sshan2525]

9. Friedman has no credibility left..............

He used to be a great read, but he went over to the dark side after 9/11.

[DemsUnite]

10. Realsim is dispicable, apparently

[bribri16]

11. I think Thomas Friedman is "dispicable!"

That puts me one notch above most smart people.

[Clark2008]

12. Funny they don't consider calling for the blacklisting

of people who are practicing their First Amendment right to speak out and question the government, "hate speech."

Friedman's speech was much more hateful - and anti-Constitutional - than anything people against the Iraqi War are saying.

BUT, I defend Friedman's right to say what he says and make an ass out of himself by doing it.

[Village Idiot]

13. Morons, morons, MORONS!!!!

Why are all these MORONS wasting good oxygen???

[Pithy Cherub]

14. Friedman is only a legend in his remaining working brain cell...

He outsources his thinking to Bush World Inc. They got a good deal the whole thing was a buck - just one dollar! :rofl:

[flpoljunkie]

15. There is a difference between saying Iraq increases terrorism and saying

terrorists actions are "understandable." I know no one on the left who believes such drivel, and Friedman is despicable to try and make such an absurd connection.

He knows better. So we are left to wonder why he would say such an absurd thing.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

16. You know what I don't understand?

Does this guy think that if all of us who oppose the war keep silent that the situation in Iraq will be resolved peacefully? Does he think the Iraqi citzens will suddenly embrace capitalism (code word for "freedoms") and become a miniature version of the US?
Does he think that we should blindly accept whatever is told to us by the government as gospel? I was always told the ability to questiona dn dissent is what made this country the envy of the rest of the world. Kind of funny, when we exercise those rights, certain people get very nervous. I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Friedman stood to gain from the war in some manner..... :shrug:

[welshTerrier2]

17. a writer who can't distinguish between "explain" and "justify"

there are many causes of terrorism ... terrorists don't just leap out of bed in the morning and decide to blow-up a bunch of stuff for no reason at all ... they have reasons for their actions ...

this does not mean that these reasons are necessarily justified or acceptable to anyone else ... so, terrorists act based on their reasons for acting and others are free to judge whether they believe the actions are justified given the reasons provided ... the point is, the two are not the same ...

for a word-jockey, Friedman is totally out to lunch ... look at how he conflates the words "explains" and "justification" in the following two sentences from his article:

After every major terrorist incident, the excuse makers come out to tell us why imperialism, Zionism, colonialism or Iraq explains why the terrorists acted. and

There is no political justification for 9/11, 7/7 or 7/21.

Friedman uses illogic like this to condemn the left (although he does not specifically mention the left in his article) ... what Mr. Friedman doesn't seem to be able to grasp is that the left not only sees terrorism that condones the killing of innocent citizens as immoral, but sees US foreign policy as immoral as well!!

There's plenty of immorality to go around ... condemning terrorism and US imperialism is not an either-or proposition ...

[chieftain]

18. Friedman is a brilliant fool.

He has a seductive view of what a globalized world could be and yet thinks that Neanderthals like Little George and Cheney want the same thing and are trying to create it.

[DemsUnite]

19. LOL

Well put.