David Rees, the creator of Get Your War On, demolishes Michael Ignatieff’s painfully self-serving essay on “getting Iraq wrong” in the New York Times Magazine. Ignatieff is one of many slimeballs who were horribly wrong on Iraq, but now say they feel a little bad and are happy that their careers will continue. He is presently Deputy Leader of the Liberal Opposition in Canada. Go read it. Here is a teaser.
“I made some of these mistakes and then a few of my own. The lesson I draw for the future is to be less influenced by the passions of people I admire — Iraqi exiles, for example — and to be less swayed by my emotions. . . .”
And here, finally, is where my skull cracked open, my heart combusted, and a murder of crows flew out of my ass. Michael Ignatieff is drawing lessons for the future. Michael Ignatieff has a future in public policy. Sure, it’s CANADIAN public policy, so it doesn’t really count, but still— it’s like the guy can’t be stopped. You know why? Because he’s at that level where you literally can’t make a big enough mistake to be fired, shunned, or indicted. I’d like to visit that level someday. First thing I’d do is get rip-roarin’ drunk and rob a bank using Richard Perle’s face as a weapon. (JOKE!)