You fasten the triggers / for the others to fire

As George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson wrote the words through which this country was purposely and dishonestly led down the road to disaster in Iraq. Here, Newsweek and The Washington Post, two members of the So-Called Liberal Media (SCLM), have given him an opportunity to continue the campaign to exonerate the guilty and accuse the innocent, as his former boss did virtually every time he addressed this topic, without accepting so much of a scintilla of responsibility for the creation of this disaster. In the column, he quotes Fred Kagan, Ken Pollack, and Henry Kissinger -- exactly the same experts whose analysis has been discredited by the disastrous results of the implementation of their policies. And he puts the onus of dealing with the disaster that he and his friends and political allies created on those who were (largely) innocent and who, like Barack Obama, were actually right and could have saved this country from the catastrophe he helped inflict upon it.

Read the whole Altercation here.