Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack Have No Credibility

Far from being war critics, they have consistently agreed with practically every Bush Administration policy for Iraq in every public forum. Pollack's book The Threatening Storm was subtitled "The Case For Invading Iraq," fer Chrissakes. So when these two pen a New York Times editorial talking about how totally awsom things are going in Iraq, citing facts and figures that contradict his own think tank's "Iraq index," which HE OVERSEES...

When the likes of these propagandists write about Iraq they should be shunned, not listened to, laughed right out of the arena of public opinion. This being America, they are welcomed on every talk show and in elite newspapers.

Electricity output is so abysmal in Iraq that the State Department has stopped updating the statistics. The political situation is completely stalemated and now the Parliament is taking off for a month. The only people who would believe this nonsense that Iraq is suddenly moving toward the Best Democracy Evah are the kind of people who are personal friends of General Petraeus... oh, never mind.

The real problem here is that war supporters like this, who have been discredited by any meaningful standard for the past 5 years, are still listened to in Democratic circles, and are still given plenty of airtime on television and column inches in newspapers. In fact, O'Hanlon has advised none other than John Edwards on foreign policy issues in the recent past.

This is something we have to wrap our heads around.

UPDATE: 1 in 3 Iraqis need emergency aid, either food or water. 8 MILLION people. But don't worry, things are going great, tell us those who supported the war from the beginning!