Prescient and Patriotic: America's Honor Roll

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060417/liberalmedia

Eric Alterman

George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq has proven so colossally counterproductive it almost beggars belief. This is finally, belatedly, reflected across a spectrum of opinion that includes virtually everyone who is not in the Bush inner circle or on the Washington Post editorial board or the Weekly Standard masthead.
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Ironically, the very same people who counseled us into this catastrophe remain in control of the debate on what is to be done about it. In fact, most of the "liberal hawks" who spent their time attacking not merely the analysis of their more cautious comrades but often their patriotism and intelligence have only seen their prestige and positions enhanced.
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To address this incongruity I've picked a short (representative) Honor Roll of people in a variety of fields whose prescience and patriotism led them to risk their positions and/or prestige in public life to warn their nation of impending catastrophe:

Maj. Gen. Anthony Zinni (Ret.), former chief of US Central Command
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki
General Wesley Clark (Ret.)
Ambassador Joe Wilson
John Brady Kiesling, service officer who resigned his job in protest
Vice President Al Gore
Senator Russ Feingold
Senator Ted Kennedy
Senator Barack Obama
William Nordhaus (Yale)
John Dower, dean of twentieth-century Japanese historians
Journalist, James Fallows
Walter Pincus of the Washington Post