Tom Friedman to Jon Stewart: 'After 9/11, I Overreacted' (VIDEO)

[democracy1st]

On "The Daily Show" Tuesday night, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman admitted that he "overreacted" to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

When host Jon Stewart made the case that invading Iraq had a detrimental effect on the war in Afghanistan, Friedman seemed reluctant to respond.

"I feel like you -- you are holding something inside you about Iraq. I feel like you supported that. Are you upset with yourself about supporting that tactic and supporting that war?" Stewart asked.

"Yeah, my criticism of myself would be that after 9/11, I overreacted. and I think as a country we overreacted," Friedman said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/02/tom-friedman-after-911-i_n_376714.html

[drdtroit]

1. Yeah Tom, the country overreacted thanks to people such as yourself

and the rest of the corporate media whores. Oh gee whiz, I guess we shouldn't have listened to the lies. Cartoon drawings of mobile WMD labs. Yeah baby!

[Hissyspit]

2. Ha. I did not hear that.

Because as soon as Friedman came on, I turned the sound down.

[izquierdista]

4. What do you expect from a flat-earther?

[Hissyspit]

7. I have news for Tom, I did not overeact at all.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

3. Friedman is pawning it off on the country as well?

Friedman almost by himself gave creedence and cover to Bush's war. It was disgusting on nearly a daily basis. Why would anyone listen to him now?

[gratuitous]

5. It's a damn shame this is the only platform Friedman has to say this

Imagine if he was to explain himself somewhere other than a basic cable fake news show. If only there was some other platform where he could get this rather important information disseminated. Oh, if only Tommy was an invited guest on other programs. Or could write a newspaper column about it. Or . . .

But no. More's the pity.

[otohara]

6. Tom's "My Bad" Moment

war not so warranted was it asshole?

[peacetalksforall]

8. Overreacted. Just as it was designed for us. It worked on too many, thus we have the

House and Senate approval of the entire bombing (and torture?) program, including the Patriot Act, spying, immunity, etc.