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• [1] Darren from Brooklyn July 13, 2009 - 12:23PM

  This is disgusting. This guy keeps going into how hard it was to go into Iraq, but keeps insisting how important and necessary it was.

  Obviously it was hard, it was also unnecessary and the hubris required to sacrifice the thousands of lives is gross.

  
  
• [2] Lori from Montclair, NJ July 13, 2009 - 12:23PM

  BLAH BLAH BLAH!

  He earned a salary off this war and now he'll sell books by criticizing/justifying it -- no shame.

  
  
• [3] PM from NYC July 13, 2009 - 12:39PM

  Thomas Ricks...FIASCO...a must read!!!

  
  
• [4] b smart from brooklyn July 13, 2009 - 12:43PM

  What an apologist!!! Excuses, excuses.

  
  
• [5] Kenny - Interesting ! from Manhattan July 13, 2009 - 12:44PM

  good interview, great guest. Thanks Leonard for bringing some balance and common sense to the whole Iraq mess. Lessons learned:

  1) It was not the debathification that was the problem - far more complicated than that.

  2) Husseins were evil and we did right in getting rid of them.

  3) You gotta have a plan!

  
  
• [6] Lawrence from Keyport, NJ July 13, 2009 - 12:44PM

  Hello.....Don. You don't do "this thing" based on lies, ignorance and bully, cowboy neo-con hackery. After looking at our US history for, oh, one or two seconds, you might see that overthrowing governments only makes both nations weaker and more vulnerable to attack.

  
  
• [7] Dan from Pearl River NY July 13, 2009 - 12:45PM

  Leonard

  Will Conservatives or the former administration ever get cut a break for keeping this nation safe. Will the NPR bias toward the left ever allow our current administration for the extreme and uneeded debt we are being thrown into?

  
  
• [8] Darren from Brooklyn July 13, 2009 - 01:02PM

  Dan,

  It's exhausting that conservatives think that being in a fight means you're defending something. If Bush was interested in defending the country, he would have gone into Afghanistan first and looked into the Saudi connection. None of the 19 hijackers were Iraqi, nor was Iraq involved with Al-Quaeda.

  
  
• [9] Greg Kearnan from Somerset NJ July 13, 2009 - 01:03PM

  Mr. Eberly's implication at the end of the interview that some form of justice was served regarding Abhu Ghraib was unacceptable.

  Lindy England has had her life ruined and two other participants were offered up as scapegoats for a systemic problem that many people in highest levels of the military and our government were aware of.

  Mr. Cheney's continual defense of the stategies of torture that have cost the US any moral standing is a indication that NOTHING meaningful came out of Abu Ghraib.

  Read - FIASCO.

  
  
• [10] Dan from Pearl River NY July 13, 2009 - 01:16PM

  Darren

  So what your saying is genocide, terrorist training camps, threats to our freedom are OK. My point is that WNYC does not have what it takes to take a middle road stance or put on a guest that will admit to the good points of our former administration and the obvious issues being created by Pres Obama.

  
  
• [11] Darren from Brooklyn July 13, 2009 - 01:53PM

  Dan,

  If you're still reading this-

  You're putting ridiculous words in my mouth. If you can focus and stay on point, you might actually make a lucid argument. Yours is a non-argument, of course I'm not in favor of dictators, or terrorists- you're being silly. My priority however would be to first address those legitimate threats to this country. (Saddam was not one of them.)

  
  
• [12] Dan from Pearl River NY July 13, 2009 - 05:11PM

  Darren, I agree on the bigger threat should have been dealt with first. My original point is that the show takes the safe route, take a leftist show, put only those who agree with you and do the liberal dance. Or simply behave like MSNBC.

  
  
• [13] effell July 16, 2009 - 09:53AM

  Don Eberly on the US and torture: we're better than Arab dicatorships. Shameless.