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The "nobody-could-have-known" excuse and Iraq - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The predominant attribute of American elites is a refusal to take responsibility for any failures.  The favored tactic for accomplishing this evasion is the "nobody-could-have-known" excuse.  Each time something awful occurs -- the 9/11 attack, the Iraq War, the financial crisis, the breaking of levees in New Orleans, the general ineptitude and lawlessness of the Bush administration -- one is subjected to an endless stream of excuse-making from those responsible, insisting that there was no way they "could have known" what was to happen:  "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile,"


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 11:16:52 AM EST
Apparently Blair claims to be surprised, in his autohagiography, that Iran and Al Qaeda played such a big part in Iraq after the invasion.

He may be a lying little toad-faced pond scum eating prostitute - allegedly - but he's nothing if not permanently on message.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 12:20:35 PM EST
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He may be a lying little toad-faced pond scum eating prostitute - allegedly -

hey that's harsh and inappropriately unfair to pondscum eating prostitutes.

they don't lie... or authorise mass murder.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 06:20:24 PM EST
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it is almost a requirement of people seeking to be considered Serious that they only listen to the self-regarding echo chambers of upper echelon conventional wisdom.

New information that might contradict that is to be avoided and ridiculed at all costs. After all, once you have entered such elevated reaches you are impervious to any negative consequences of decisions taken on the basis of such limited data sources.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 12:38:02 PM EST
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