Al Jazeera reporter Abderrahim Foukara interviews Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq:
Notice that Rumsfeld has no answer to Foukara's question: does he take any responsibility for the tens of thousands of innocents killed as a result of his botched occupation of Iraq? And so he tries to make the conversation about al Jazeera. What I find staggering about these alleged conservatives: they refuse to take responsibility for anything but success, cannot admit error, and would rather engage in fantasy-world scenarios than face reality.
That's Cheney, as we have just seen, and also Rumsfeld. And I have to say that the US MSM, by refusing to ask these direct, relevant moral and ethical questions from these war criminals, is part of the problem. Rumsfeld is correct when he diagnoses these questions as "not an interview" – as long as that means an interview in the American media. The war crimes of the past administration were never treated seriously as such by the media. If they were, why would Cheney even be given a platform on the Sunday morning talkshows, let alone fawning respect?
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