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or Powell's or me• • •
"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
November 08, 2007
Jonathan Versen: Wrong From The Beginning
Jonathan Versen has been digging up comments on Iraq he left strewn around the internet before the war. For instance, here he is in April, 2002 on the BBC website:
Neither Bush nor the Democrats have the resolve to attack Iraq and see through the consequences of an ouster of Saddam Hussein. Most Americans who may be in favour of Saddam's ouster are unwilling to concede the responsibility to help a post-war Iraq rebuild itself. My impression is that most Americans favour a viscerally rewarding and superficial solution and I fear that we will just bomb the hell out of Iraq's infrastructure and leave her people desolate, with only token, guilt-salving efforts at reconstruction. If we do this we will have made our problems in this region much, much worse. We already seem to be headed in this direction in Afghanistan.
Wow, his face must be red now! More of his embarrassingly wrong pre-war observations here.
Posted at November 8, 2007 09:35 AM | TrackBackComments
how do you even allow a man of such poor judgement to comment here? you must be ashamed for supporting such atrocities, Mr Schwarz!
Posted by: almostinfamous at November 8, 2007 12:15 PMperhaps it's my charming name and raffish manner.
Posted by: jonathan versen at November 8, 2007 12:33 PMNothing more charming nor unique than John, after all. Don't worry, someone will get war right one of these days. The millions of refugees, hundreds of thousands dead, and 7-fold increase in world-wide terrorism is a small price to pay for the experience we now have and will be able to apply poerfectly in Iran.
Posted by: Ashley at November 8, 2007 05:05 PM
