So Much for Democracy
Aug 25th, 2007 at 7:56 am by Susie
As I noted the other day, there is indeed a connection between the rumblings about “democratically-elected” Prime Minister Maliki and the hiring of a heavyweight PR firm to promote former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Apparently all those purple fingers are meaningless against the power of a major Beltway player!
Glenn Greenwald untangles the whole mess (and by the way, have you noticed that the madder Glenn gets, the better he writes?):
The whole media/Beltway edifice is built on this rotating, interconnected filth. But this case is so egregious. One of Washington’s Most Respected National Security Experts, key Rice advisor (and 9/11 Commission Executive Director) Philip Zelikow, is running around Washington trying to engineer the fall of the Iraqi government — testifying at Congressional hearings and appearing on network news programs, perhaps even working officially again for the Bush administration — all while being fraudulently held out as an objective expert and concealing that he is being paid by the prime beneficiary of these policies.
In a political culture with even the most minimal amounts of integrity, this would be a major scandal. But in our political culture, it is simply a vivid exhibit illustrating how our political system works.
i like glenn greenwalk. almost as much as i like glenn greenwald.
ok, i’m going to go now, and take a nice wald in the park.