Reply #1: As one who never bought in to the Administration's lies,

[Jackpine Radical]

I am always amazed and appalled by these confessions of blindness on the part of people who were supposed to know what was going on. Actually, I always gave them credit for intelligence if not conscience, and assumed that they were complicit. Can they really have been so clueless, so innocent, so trusting of the BUSHIES, fer Chrissake, that they actually drank the Kool Aid, or are they merely trying to reposition themselves, now that the entire propaganda edifice has fallen about their shoulders?

And, giving them the benefit of the doubt, imagining them to have been deceived fools rather than willing Reifenstuhls, should I presume that they have now learned something? Are they now less likely to get suckered in again? Watching the reporting on Iran, I see no particular grounds for optimism.

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, and I'm a New York Times reporter.