Gonzo: "I Consider Myself One Of The Many Casualties Of The War On Terror"

[kpete]

Gonzo: I'm A Casualty Of The War On Terror
By Zachary Roth - December 31, 2008, 9:34AM
Looks like Gonzo still doesn't quite get it.

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- under whose tenure the Justice Department often appeared to take its orders from the White House political office -- sat down with the Wall Street Journal in an effort to clear his name. But we're guessing he did himself more harm than good.

Gonzo appeared genuinely unable to grapple with why he might be unpopular. "What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?" he asked.

And he wasn't above wallowing in self-pity, making a comparison that would likely rankle families of 9/11 and Iraq war victims: "For some reason, I am portrayed as the one who is evil in formulating policies that people disagree with. I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror."

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And Gonzo put the blame for the memos authorizing torture squarely on John Yoo, the then-DOJ lawyer who wrote them -- even though even though there's no evidence that Gonzo, as White House counsel, raised any objection.

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more at:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/gonzo_im_a_casualty_of_the_war.php

[Political Tiger]

1. What an ASS! n/t

[annabanana]

2. Remarkable! I KNEW he was craven, I didn't realize

that he was so astoundingly stupid

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. one of the many casualties. . . .?

proof positive that he is about as smart as his biggest client.

[jobycom]

4. He's probably simply not intelligent enough to understand what he did wrong.

That's been my impression of him since he was Bush's lacky attorney in Texas, where he once argued that Bush shouldn't have to serve on jury duty because he might one day be called upon to pardon the suspect as governor. (The real reason was because Bush didn't want to answer questions under oath about past legal problems like DUIs).

He's a lightweight who never understood the responsibilities of his job. He thought his role was to do what Bush said, and use any means necessary to do it, and had no integrity to give him focus, so that he could advise Bush on legal issues as he was hired to do. His interview pretty much confirms that.

I'd like to believe these people, from Bush on down, would have to face what they did in a legal court, but I'm not naive enough. I can still hope, though.

[jaysunb]

7. This says it all.....

He's a lightweight who never understood the responsibilities of his job. He thought his role was to do what Bush said, and use any means necessary to do it, and had no integrity to give him focus, so that he could advise Bush on legal issues as he was hired to do. His interview pretty much confirms that.

Ordinary people would have to do the time for this. :evilfrown:

[graywarrior]

5. He's one dumb, delusional fuck

[Captain Hilts]

6. I just don't know what to say or type. nt

[UTUSN]

8. Cluelessness is what got him his jobs

The BUSH family are great at recruiting Useful Tools, at playing sleight of hand distraction tricks like posting minority sell-outs as nominees to use their race/ethnicity against the Dems.

We *know* that YOO and others wrote the memos, AND we also know that Gonzo was put in as the figurehead to SIGN them. But I didn't know that Gonzo was THIS clueless!1

[indepat]

9. American institutions and Americans are the casualties of the war on terror, not Herr Gonzo

:P

[Solly Mack]

10. lololololololol Poor me...lolololololololol

[awoke_in_2003]

11. ...

:nopity:

[The Blue Flower]

12. His loyalty oath

...was to his boss, not the Constitution. So in his mind, he performed quite well indeed.

[Warpy]

13. He can cry me a river and jump into it and drown

He's one of the architects of the abrogation of the Geneva Conventions. His hands are just as bloody as Cheney's, Addington's, Yoo's.

He belongs in prison with the lot of them.

Victim, my ass. Victims have maimed bodies and shattered minds. He's just the same evil piece of filth he always was.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. BWAHAHAHA! *gasp* BWAHAHAHAHA! n/t

[camera obscura]

15. So... he's a terrorist?

I think that's what he's saying...

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

16. maybe he meant to say he considered himself one of the perps of terror...