Kristol on whether he owes the American public an apology for hyping Iraq WMD claims: ‘No.’

[laststeamtrain]

Kristol on whether he owes the American public an apology for hyping Iraq WMD claims: ‘No.’

On Friday, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. A caller criticized his publication for hyping President Bush’s pre-invasion lies about WMD in Iraq, and asked him to apologize to the American public. Kristol refused, saying that the war has been a smashing success:

CALLER: All of y’all hyped that to a degree that was just unimaginable. Even President Bush admitted there were no weapons of mass destruction there. In lieu of that fact — being the fact that there are 4,500 American lives lost there — will you personally apologize to those folks right now? Simple yes or no. Thank you.

KRISTOL: No. I think the war was right, and I think we’ve succeeded in the war. And I think those lives — we should honor those soldiers who gave their lives and who fought so hard, and also were wounded for what they did.

Kristol then tried to switch the topic, saying, “And also in Afghanistan, incidentally, it’s President Obama who’s announcing the increase in troops today. It’s not something he was forced into by the Weekly Standard or anyone else.” (As ThinkProgress noted this morning, Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan-Pakistan is not the same as Bush’s surge in Iraq.) Watch it: ... http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/29/kristol-cspan-iraq/

[Laelth]

1. He's one of the WORST shills the Republics have.

To him, it's all about insuring that Republics win, and to heck with the American people.

:dem:

-Laelth

[annabanana]

2. pfft... waste of breath trying to shame this motherfucker...

Equal parts stupid and craven.. impervious to self reflection. .

[Fridays Child]

7. Exactly. When someone figures out how to shame a neocon...

...I'll buy that book.

[zeemike]

3. Sociopaths never feel the need to apologize n/t

[spindrifter]

4. He's especially loathesome because he was the one

who gave us Sarah Palin.

[subterranean]

10. Perhaps we should thank him for that.

[FreakinDJ]

5. MAJORITY of American media does

love it how they cleard "theirselves" of all wrong doing in the matter

[Supersedeas]

13. Yellow Journalism exposed top to bottom

[Hissyspit]

6. Piece of Shit.

[tnlefty]

8. Exactly.

When I saw him on c-span yet again, I uttered pure filth and foul so much so that my spouse took notice. I then mentioned something about why in the hell c-span would fuck up its' credibility by having him on AGAIN. :crazy:

[peace13]

9. Kristol you piece of crap!

Send others off to war with a lie and smirk about it. Only one reason to hope that there is a god.....so she can send your sorry *ss to *ell!

[The Traveler]

11. Yes, Little Billy Kristol remains a piece of crap

a man without honor, or even the barest glimmerings of the concepts behind decent character. He is to be pitied as a man intellectually crippled by his neurosis. Indeed, he is largely useless. A waste of skin. Do not trouble yourself with him.

Such is the power of grace that while he breathes there is a chance he can change the tale of his life. I'm wouldn't bet money on it .. but there are some optimists around here ... come, let us wager ... I need the cash ... :evilgrin:

Trav

[woodwrite]

12. Kristol isn't really even an American

He is the de facto agent of a foreign nation that is adversarial to the United States,... Israel. The same could be said of many of the signatory PNAC neocons. I believe the penalty they all should pay is not to be spoken of in this forum.

[gratuitous]

14. Why should Kristol apologize?

He made a lot of money, got a sweet sinecure, and even today he's going on the teevee to talk about how great he is. Do you get to go on the teevee? No? So Kritol's nacht going to apologize.