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November 10, 2006

These People Are Just As Detail-Oriented As You Suspect

Here's a Wall Street Journal editorial by second string neo-con Reuel Marc Gerecht, with a mildly amusing mistake:

Gates Crasher
by Reuel Marc Gerecht

As will soon be apparent, the Iraq Survey Group, of which Mr. Gates is a member and to which I'm an adviser, has not discovered any way for the U.S. to exit Iraq -- except under catastrophic conditions...

Mr. Gerecht is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and an adviser to the Iraq Survey Group

I guess the federal government has so many stupid blue ribbon panels even the people involved can't keep their names straight. The thing for which Gerecht is an advisor is the Iraq Study Group. The Iraq Survey Group was the CIA team sent to look for WMD.

I realize this is a small, easy-to-make error...but I'd really like the people running the world to be a little more detail-oriented.

Posted at November 10, 2006 02:57 PM | TrackBack
Comments

It's all the same, really. Both groups found nothing.

Posted by: Aaron Datesman at November 10, 2006 05:22 PM

If they had been detail-oriented they might have won the last election, and their domination of America would be complete.

I prefer my villains to be sloppy, thank you very much.

Posted by: Cal at November 11, 2006 12:53 AM

gerecht is(was?) ex-cia in the middle east.

so there might be a protoplasmic trace of freud in that statement

Posted by: almostinfamous at November 11, 2006 05:27 AM

At least he wrote Iraq and not Iran.

Posted by: SPIIDERWEBâ„¢ at November 11, 2006 06:27 AM

Blame the fact-checkers. Some underpaid young person probably googled "Iraq Study Group," got "Did you mean Iraq *Survey* Group?" And stopped there. And Gerecht is probably really angry about it now. At least, that's what I'm choosing to believe.

Posted by: Mollie at November 11, 2006 07:58 AM

Maybe it was the Iraq sturdy group. You know, the one that sturdily stands by its assessment, irrespective of facts(new or otherwise), that subsequently come to light.

Posted by: Jonathan Versen at November 11, 2006 11:41 PM

And uh like has anyone of those retards came up with any way for the US to stay in Iraq "except under catastrophic conditions..."??? I didn't think so. They're fucking idiots!

Posted by: Terrible at November 13, 2006 02:51 PM

I think I heard them screw that up about four times on NPR this morning.

Posted by: perianwyr at November 14, 2006 02:40 PM