If you’ve got mplayer, you can dump it to your hd with the following:
“mms://wm.z1.mii-streaming.net/media/pbs/windows/general/windows/wnet/moyers/journal/btw/BTW_part1_480.wmv?v1st=5A54C435CFC5C593″ -dumpstream -dumpfile moyers1.wmv
(change “part1″ to “part2″, “part3″, etc to get all 5 chapters)

And it was history, the way the Beinarts lubed the way for the Cheneys and Chalabis to market such a monumentally evil adventure that has caused so much harm to the thems and uses and y’alls and future thems and uses and y’alls of the world.

If you’re old, hang your head … if you’re young, never fear, it’ll all happen againin 20 years time.

We fucking suck. Our only saving grace is that occasionally we recognize that fact.

WeikuBoy: When one refers to Iraqis today, is one referring only to the survivors?

Yes indeed. I don’t think I’ve pestered my friends with an e-mailed link for a couple of years now, but this was pretty amazing.

JOHN WALCOTT [Knight Ridder DC bureau chief]: Our readers aren’t here in Washington. They aren’t up in New York. They aren’t the people who send other people’s kids to war. They’re the people who get sent to war.

And we felt an obligation to them, to explain why that might happen. We were determined to scrutinize the administration’s case for war as closely as we possibly could. And that’s what we set out to do.

One might call this supporting the troops.

Here’s an odd one:

WARREN STROBEL [Knight Ridder DC reporter]: The first rule of being an intelligence agent, or a journalist, and they’re really not that different, is you’re skeptical of defectors, because they have a reason to exaggerate. They want to increase their value to you. They probably want something from you. Doesn’t mean they’re lying, but you should be — journalists are supposed to be skeptical, right? And I’m-afraid the NEW YORK TIMES reporter in that case and a lot of other reporters were just not skeptical of what these defectors were saying. Nor was the administration.

Journalistic skepticism? That’s so old school!

The Crooks & Liars video shows the first exchange between Moyers and Beinart. There’s a second near the end of the program:

PETER BEINART: Where I think I was tragically wrong was not to see in February, March 2003 after we got the inspectors back in on the ground and we began to learn much more about what had been going on in Iraq than we had known in 2002 when we had no one on the ground that that assumption was being proven wrong.

BILL MOYERS: You say tragically wrong.

PETER BEINART: Because I think the war has been a tragic disaster. I mean– the Americans killed, the Iraqis killed. It’s true, life under Saddam was hell. But can one really say that life for Iraqis is better today?

All three quotes from the PBS transcript of “Buying the War.”

A swab and a bucket. Part of the penance is that Beinhart will never, never, ever be permitted to open his mouth again. I’d suggest he cut off his typing fingers as well, but future generations would be negatively impacted if B. were to need an alternative to playing with himself.

He’s not bad looking if he keeps his mouth shut, otherwise it’s The Big Book of British Smiles, “Mind the Gap” chapter.

Now that you mention it, he does bear a striking (dare I say, eerie?) resemblance to Bri, the smart one!

Oh don’t worry, that’s just Mr Hyde peeking out from behind the freezer.

My Left Breast is for loading & unloading only!

Sincerely,

AA’sRB

…that or the sound of him swinging at the end of his suicide noose.

I’m thinking of something along the lines of

Ace of Spades HQ: Now 50% Less Ghey!1one!!