May 12th at 11:50PM
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: You Probably Don't Understand the Iraq War
Former Bush Administration Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight to set the record straight on the Iraq war. Apparently we were not mislead misled into war. I believe him. Unless he's misleading me now...
Anyway, Jon started summer early by firing up the grill and sticking Feith on it. Listen to the defense of a man who was in the room when all the planning went down and decide if it flips your script.
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I think it's funny how everyone in here can judge the administration about a decision that was very hard for them. So no WMDs were found in Iraq. Let me think about that, if I was Saddam and I knew that I was about to be invaded I would relocate or hide all of my WMDs in country like I don't know Syria. I find it interesting that everyone talks about Iraq is a mistake but no one seems to care about the fact that since we went into Iraq the US has not been attacked again. I don't know about anyone of you but I rather fight a war on someone else's country instead of my own.
Jon Stewart conceded too many points to Douglas Feith. The fact was that the administration did deliberately mislead the country while going in to war (see any news source, but particularly the "smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud" reference, after Joe Wilson proved there was no evidence Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapons program), was always planning on invading Iraq (as Rumsfeld was already trying to pin 9-11 on Iraq and use it to justify an invasion - as Bob Woodward showed in his book), and had long given up diplomacy (if it was ever pursuing it) before the war as the Downing Street memos showed. Too much of the debate is expressed in half baked statements and mistruths when we already have so much knowledge about the lead up to the war. While Stewart is better at holding politicians to task than most, he is clearly following the lead of a continuously timid media on the subject.
Does anyone else find the add next to the article a little Chester the Molester? "Be a junior deepthroat. Wtf mate?
That still makes the bad guys Iraq, Jonas. It was sanctioned by the UN and we were the heroes in all of this, with the British, by going into the Gulf War. Who else could they send?
It does appear that for all that we did to help Kuwait, this is the thanks we get. A need to shut down our borders because of Terrorist alerts. We got burnt for being Americans and sending our troops to help with someone else's war.
What has been the benefits of helping Kuwait? What have they done for us lately?
9/11 was not the start of this war. It was the Persian Gulf War and Desert Shield which became Desert Storm when Kuwait was returned to the control of the Emir of Kuwait, February of 1991, lead by US Troops.
9/11 happened September 11, 2001.
Check your sequence of events!
@Jeff:
Jon is a TV show host and a comedian. The same cannot be said about the government. They have a responsibility to look at things quantitatively before making this kind of decision.
I am glad I don't live in a society that still refers to books from the Dark Ages. I'd be the 28th wife and would have to bear at least 12 children to guarantee his fantasy of what might be waiting for him in heaven.
The biggest disconnect that continues to riddle the beginning of the Iraq war is how it relates to 9/11. With an exceptional use of 24 hr. news cycles and spin the administration took us from 9/11 to Afganistan to Palestine to .................. Iraq has WMDs and is related to Al Queda. Huh??? Every discussion is about whether this information was valid. Why does no one ever talk about the fact that there was logical hiccup (intentional in my view) that a fearful American public followed like sheep. I still am baffled by the thought that people STILL think that in some way Iraq was the right place to be to effectively wage a war on terror and just retaliation for 9/11. This point is especially true now, after the fact, where all the sudden everyone is an "expert" on Iraqi Muslim anthropology. Unfortunately, for many Americans, this would mean admitting that we ALLOWED ourselves to be misled out of fear and multimedia pacification. Its time for Americans to step up to the plate and take responsibility for our own decisions and our own government. It may not be a complete democracy but it is the best thing we have. So use your heads.
Poor Jon, he certainly does lack the ability to suggest an underlying theme. All he does is agree with his guests so that it is simply a book plug. I have never learned that he might suggest that the his current guest is just part of the big nasty propaganda machine who is trying to make us feel OK about the current war.
It took two world wars, a systematic genocide both in Europe, and in North America, the colonising and enslavement of a variety of cultures; the blood of so many anonymous innocents in order to lead to what you deem, in this era of fear and distrust, as "Enlightenment"
The west is far from an enlightened culture.
And rest of the world has begun to realise that they don't simply have to sit back and watch as America decides the fate of this whole planet.
If only we did not have nations, and states, and sides.
And we pledged our allegiance to all peoples.
Instead of just one.