George Bush and Dick Cheney have made elder statesmen out of Oliver North and John Dean.
The ghosts of Iran-Contra and Watergate can now be seen regularly on cable TV, telling us where we’re going wrong in Iraq and elsewhere.
Oliver North, who never before saw a military action he didn’t like, is criticizing the Surge on Fox TV and telling us “nearly all” the troops don’t want it. As a Reagan aide in the 1980s, he was caught lying to Congress about selling missiles to Iran and using the money to buy weapons to fight the Nicaraguan Contras.
Dean, who was Nixon’s White House lawyer and went to prison for the Watergate coverup, is now an articulate critic of this “authoritarian” Administration with a book titled “Conservatives Without Conscience.”
When his former deputy, Fred Fielding, was recently appointed White House counsel, Dean called him a fine lawyer but noted “he’s been sipping some of the Kool-Aid lately so I’m not sure how he’s going to come out on this.”
Everybody, it seems, learns something from past mistakes except you-know-who.
You-know-who had a lot of help painting himself into this corner, and we know his Daddy made a lot of those recommendations for nominees for appointed positions. But you-know-who isn't a "change course" kind of guy, and isn't a part of the "reality-based community"... and he still expects people to believe whatever he says, even after being proven wrong (or lying) dozens of times.
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