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Friday, April 20, 2007
 
Buying the War

I'm looking forward to watching this next week. In retrospect, it will surely be as damning as it is now obvious.

I suspect though that in political circles the war in Iraq will be seen as a great success. It demonstrates that policy need not be based on facts and that facts need not be an impediment to executive branch policy. When the end goal is clear, there are a lot of ways to get there. I'm sure future pols of all stripes will review the success that Bush and Rove had in getting to the dessert based on little more than a desire for revenge and a sense of gung-ho imperialism.

A comparison between Rove and Goebbels seems most apt. I don't know Rove's history of how he got to where he is, but his ability to direct and control the media would seem to have little precedent. It may be argued that both men were savvy geniuses who at their very heart of hearts were bad men. The tv program will be interesting from the standpoint of hearing from those who have been victims of the manipulation.