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May 06, 2004

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via BOP:

Paul Merriman at CBS Marketwatch has the money quote of the day:

"What's really galling is that the Pentagon had information about widespread torturing for months, and yet even today both the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chief of Staff are telling us they have not read the report.

Remember how lightning-quick "official" Washington read Paul O'Neil's 523-page book, Bob Woodward's 480-pager and Richard Clark's 320-pager, then instantly launched massive television counterattacks defending their ill-conceived war ideology while destroying the credibility of their critics?

Meanwhile, they have the gall to tell us they had not read that short 53-page two-month-old report on torture by the American military intelligence in Iraqi prisons? And now, after the information is circulated worldwide, they still want us to believe they haven't read it?

My God, how stupid do they think we are?"

Source:
Inept politicians a financial threat
Commentary: Optimism tested when leaders can't be trusted
By Paul B. Farrell, CBS.MarketWatch.com

Posted by P6 at May 6, 2004 11:18 PM
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Comments

Good one, Earl! Thanks for posting this.

"My God, how stupid do they think we are?"

Apparently, a large percentage of the American public buys the "official line", so connect this up to the statement. Sigh...

Posted by cobalt at May 7, 2004 12:41 AM

I really prefer to think most folks are willfully ignorant than flat out stupid.

It's getting harder to do, though.

Posted by P6 at May 7, 2004 02:10 AM

How stupid? Usefully stupid. That's how much dumb.

Posted by Matt Stoller at May 9, 2004 12:35 AM

Half the population has below average intelligence.

But the other half has no excuse.

Posted by Tomato Observer at May 9, 2004 11:08 AM

Half the population has below average intelligence.

That would be the half that voted Republican, I guess. Posted by P6 at May 9, 2004 11:51 AM