NOW Friedman Thinks Dubya Is Crazy?

Talk about taking the scenic route before you find yourself right next door…

We are provided this bit of insight today from the august New York Times columnist concerning Bushco and Iraq (Times Select, of course)…

Mr. Bush summoned the country to D-Day and prepared the Army, the military health system, military industries and the American people for the invasion of Grenada.

This is not new insight for Friedman and should not be surprising at all, especially since he wrote the following in February 2003…

They are gearing up for the rebuilding of Iraq, along the lines of the rebuilding of Germany and Japan after World War II, and the nation is geared up, at best, for the quick and dirty invasion of Grenada.

Still, though, Friedman wrote these now-infamous words in the very same column a little over four years ago…

I think I get this war, and, on balance, I think it is a risk worth taking -- provided we have a country willing to see it through.

"You think you get" this war? Somehow I don't recall, say, Roosevelt describing December 7, 1941 as "a date which will live in infamy," then saying, "I think I get World War II."

Please, Friedman, stop trying to blame others in an attempt to deflect blame for your own callous ignorance on our Iraq nightmare.

Please stop now, and for all time.

And one more thing: if the graphic that follows doesn’t provide enough of a reason not to subscribe to Times Select (despite Kristof and Krugman), then I don’t know what does.