Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Thomas Friedman on the Daily Show

"After 9/11 I over-reacted."

Over-reacted? The Mustache of Understanding in 2003 explaining the REAL reason he and the rest of the conservatives goaded the country into invading Iraq:

What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?"

You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna to let it grow?

Well, Suck. On. This.

Okay.

That Charlie was what this war was about. We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.


All those innocent people dead and their lives destroyed, and you over-reacted?

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