Wrong for Over 50 Years

“They were wrong on Civil Rights.
They were wrong on Viet Nam.
They were wrong on Watergate.
They were wrong on Iran-contra.
They were wrong the first Gulf War.
They were wrong on universal health insurance.
They were wrong on Whitewater.
They were wrong on the Clinton impeachment.
They were wrong on the 2000 election.
They were wrong on the Iraq invasion.
They were wrong on Abu Ghraib.
They were wrong on the swiftboat vets.
They were wrong on Terri Shiavo.
They were wrong on New Orleans.
They are wrong on Plamegate.
They are wrong on the FISA law.
They are wrong on the ‘war on terra.’

They have been wrong on essentially every issue for the past 50 years, and they have retained power through fear, slander, and demonization, and through outright preversion (perversion) of language and the destruction of decent public discourse. No wonder their world view is so deranged and perverted.” — nobody in the Comments @ Unclaimed Territory

Indeed. They were/are wrong on:

Iraq WMDs
Social Security
Veteran’s benefits
GLBT issues
McCarthyism
Blind Loyalty
Iran-Contra
BCCI
Pre-emptive War
Domestic Warrantless Surveillance
Environmental issues
Torture
Extraordinary Rendition
Secret Prisons
Kyoto Protocol
Geneva Conventions
Human Rights
Social Safety Nets
Medicare
The War on Drugs… etc., etc., etc.,…

The thing is, the last thing they want to do is admit they were wrong… it would mean they would be forced to take “personal responsibility” for everything they were wrong about, and they are not prepared to do so. They love to throw that “personal responsibility” thing around a lot, but they don’t think it applies to them or their illustriously wrong-headed “Leader.”

And William Kristol and the rest of the PNAC elitists should be given a rifle and dropped off in the middle of the disaster he and they helped create.