I was wrong… but you didn’t know it; and a promise

About a week ago a friend of mine emailed me and asked if I could put some perspective on the Iraq war for her. Like many of us, she and her friends have been struggling to deal with everything going on right now. The truth is I was in no position to provide perspective. Overworked and under-informed, I’m really not the news-media go-to-guy I was a year ago. Still, I’m a sucker for people who actually want my opinion, so I gave it-- ill-formed and poorly expressed. One of the things I wrote, somewhere mid-ramble, was that Nick Berg’s gruesome murder would overtake the prison abuse story. Judging from some recent exposés in The New Yorker and NewsWeek, this will not happen. I hope the story sticks REAL hard. It's pretty unbelievable. In my defence, I did have some good reason for thinking it end up as an A16 newstory. The press has given Bush a free pass (or a very cheap pass) on everything from his sordid history, the 2000 election, pre 9/11 intelligence, 9/11 failures, post 9/11 failures, connections to the bin laden family and the Saudi royal family, the tax cuts, the prescription drug bill, the buildup to invading Iraq, etc… Hopefully with the election coming this trend, this bad dream, is coming to a close. I was wrong, as often happens, and thanks god. So here is a Jibblog promise, and hopefully not the last: I promise to be wrong most of the time. By that I mean I know that my resources, intellectual, informational, and empathic, are pretty diminutive, so it’s only natural I’m at least partly wrong whenever I unleash my QWERTY happy fingers. This being something I am aware of, expect opinions to change in real-time.