"I had not abandoned my trust in the Bush administration."
Glenn Greenwald:
"Despite these doubts, concerns, and grounds for ambivalence, I had not abandoned my trust in the Bush administration. Between the president’s performance in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the swift removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan..."
"I wanted the president to succeed, because my loyalty is to my country and he was the leader of my country, I still gave the administration the benefit of the doubt."
This is Greenwald's debunk of his support for the Iraq war?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023134060
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/30/1182442/-Glenn-Greenwald-Responds-to-Widespread-Lies-About-Him-on-Cato-Iraq-War-and-more#
From the preface Greenwald cites in the piece at the link.
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http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm?fuseaction=printable&book_number=1812
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If anyone remembers 2001. there was a steady stream of scandals breaking every week. The Bush machine and friends were under fire daily, even on cable news.
I remember his cronies that he moved into the White House for the Energy Summit, PNAC, Darth, Rummy and Karl and ENRON, and his faith based initiatives. Oh, he was a busy little POS even before September 11.
His NCLB was about gathering data on children in school for his crummy wars, oh my. He was an outrageous lying POS before the election of 2000, and even years before that screwing up Texas. I remmeber his gang of grifters, making corporate and pollution regulatiohns voluntary, going after states that didn't vote for him, and the freaking DHS, Patriot Act, and on and on.
And the cheerleading warmonger media, cutting coverage for kids with asthma, closing social safety net agencies, stripping rights away, fucking Medicare, SCHIP and student loans rates, rank intimidation, and all of that.
But you see, that's the view from the bottom that the media heroes walk on top of, that they never say a fucking word about. as we're not their class. Because it ain't their lives, no more than the minorities screwed out of their votes between Jebbie, George, Roger and Harris and the gang in FL and elsewhere.
Don't forget 'the jury's still out on evolution,' charter schools, and all those other wonders. That was all going on before 9/11. Excuuse me for going class warfare, with my proletariat rant!
If I keep going I might just get upset. Damn, I need some lof this amnesia RX half the world seems to be taking, as I haven't forgotten a fucking thing. I was paying a lot of attention the whole time, since folks I knew got screwed without the kiss. I didn't have the luxury of all this fancy stuff. Obviously, these things didn't effect the 1%.
It would be nice to only have to worry about a1% brat who didn't get his way. Yeah, it is about class for me. I'm so unfair, so mean to them. They're only killing us and the planet with their little games. Sorry to take it personally.
As if these guys give a flying fuck about my life or the people I care about. Screw the shiny things being dangled by the 1% media. The media will say or do anything for their masters. That ain't me.
"It is not desirable or fulfilling to realize that one does not trust one's own government and must disbelieve its statements, and I tried, along with scores of others, to avoid making that choice until the facts no longer permitted such logic.
Soon after our invasion of Iraq, when it became apparent that, contrary to Bush administration claims, there were no weapons of mass destruction, I began concluding, reluctantly, that the administration had veered far off course from defending the country against the threats of Muslim extremism. It appeared that in the great national unity the September 11 attacks had engendered, the administration had seen not a historically unique opportunity to renew a sense of national identity and cohesion, but instead a potent political weapon with which to impose upon our citizens a whole series of policies and programs that had nothing to do with terrorism, but that could be rationalized through an appeal to the nation's fear of further terrorist attacks.
And in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion came a whole host of revelations that took on an increasingly extremist, sinister, and decidedly un-American tenor. The United States was using torture as an interrogation tool, in contravention of legal prohibitions. We were violating international treaties we had signed, sending suspects in our custody for interrogation to the countries most skilled in human rights abuses. And as part of judicial proceedings involving Yaser Esam Hamdi, another U.S. citizen whom the Bush administration had detained with no trial and no access to counsel, George W. Bush began expressly advocating theories of executive power that were so radical that they represented the polar opposite of America's founding principles."
The rest of the excerpt really gets better in destroying your smear. 
K & R
http://extremeliberal.wordpress.com/tag/glenn-greenwald/
The Patriot Act was signed on October 26, 2001 and this is what Glenn Greenwald wrote in the preface to his own book – his words,
This is not to say that I was not angry about the attacks. I believed that Islamic extremism posed a serious threat to the country, and I wanted an aggressive response from our government. I was ready to stand behind President Bush and I wanted him to exact vengeance on the perpetrators and find ways to decrease the likelihood of future attacks. During the following two weeks, my confidence in the Bush administration grew as the president gave a series of serious, substantive, coherent, and eloquent speeches that struck the right balance between aggression and restraint. And I was fully supportive of both the president’s ultimatum to the Taliban and the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan when our demands were not met. Well into 2002, the president’s approval ratings remained in the high 60 percent range, or even above 70 percent, and I was among those who strongly approved of his performance.
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oh my, he thinks The Chimperor is eloquent.
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