Jacob Weisberg, Miserable Douchebag

Jacob Weisberg has a new Slate column explaining that the torture perpetrators can't be punished because "all Americans are guilty." His reasoning:

By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention

He then cherry picks some prescient reports that strongly hinted at just that. Meanwhile, he forgets to add, all the machinery of government and most of the press was denying it. Where was Weisberg calling out the liars? Not in the pages of the online magazine he edits. Weisberg, remember, was one of those so called "liberals" in the Israel lobby busy cheerleading for the attack on Iraq. Those "liberals" played a disproportionate share in getting the country behind Bush's war.

Where was Weisberg after Abu Ghraib, when the lawyers defending the low level soldiers were claiming that they had orders from above were called liars by the very architects of that policy. Somehow I don't recall him calling out Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bush, even when those soldiers got long prison sentences.

This is not to claim that guilt wasn't widely distributed in the government and even the press. Nor to claim that much of the American populace didn't support such tactics. But those who knew, including (by his own testimony) Weisberg, kept the silence or actively sold Bush's big lie: The United States "does not torture." The liars have plenty of guilt not shared by the lied to.

Weisberg is a scumbag busily tring to pass his own guilt on to everybody else. What an asshole.

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