David Brooks Roundly Condemned for Blatantly False "Lessons Learned" Iraq Column

Hey Brooks: This is what the Iraq War looked like,
just on our side. Thanks for cheerleading it.

David Brooks, failed philosopher and serial apologist for the Iraq War, opened his yap yet again and got a mouthful or five of condemnation but quick. Why? The Iraq War was based on lies, and Brooks offers up more lies to make it look like a "Who could have known?" affair rather than the fiasco that it was.

This is what a Bush lapdog looks like.

Here's a rundown of articles and blog posts condemning Brooks and the Republican attempts to
whitewash the war:

• Think Progress gives some background to Brooks' nonsense.
• Eschidne of the Snakes (yes, a real and favorite blogger) gives David "We don't know much about the world" Brooks the tongue-lashing he deserves.
• Salon's Simon Maloy declares Brooks' Iraq apologia sickening, maybe because it is.
• Paul Krugman ventures to talk about the war in "Errors and Lies." The title says it all. A related Krugman blog post talks about error and lies as applying in other cases for the same ends.
• TPM's Josh Marshall, while not going after Brooks specifically -- Josh had the GOP clown-car occupants in his sights -- does a good job of deconstructing the lies and manipulations employed by the Bush administration to push for war.
• Atlantic's James Fallow takes a look at the right and wrong questions in the justification for war.
• Paul Waldman writes in The Week an in-depth takedown of Bush's run-up to the Iraq invasion, aimed at the cadre of GOP candidates who are running away from the war.
• Here's a year-old column by Greg Mitchell that reminds us of what kind of cheerleading David Brooks did in the run-up to the war. &*!%&?

It goes on and on. If Brooks thinks rewriting history is easy, he should think again. There is an army of critics -- rightfully so! -- out there ready to call him on it when he leaves facts behind.

The reason it matters is that no one with access to a microphone like Brooks has should be allowed to write and push false narratives, something that is Brooks stock-in-trade.

Hey Brooks: These are the war criminals you enabled.
Accessory before the fact.