CBS lobs single softball at war criminal Rice

Every time one of the US war criminals who lied us into the Iraq war writes a new book extolling America's (and their) greatness, mainstream media invites them for a softball interview to goose book sales. One occurred yesterday on CBS Sunday Morning to promote former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's new book 'Democracy: Struggles from the Long Road to Freedom.

Host Jane Pauley allowed just 44 seconds of the eight minute interview to give Rice a chance to whitewash her criminal involvement in a war of aggression and imperialism that got millions killed, wounded or dispossessed, including hundreds of thousands of GI's. Ignoring the waste in blood and treasure, Pauley simply pondered whether the war was worth it with no WMD found and Al Qaeda newly planted in Iraq.. Rice hit Pauley's best softball out of the park with this exculpatory nonsense: "What we know today can affect what we do tomorrow...but not what we did yesterday...and so we did not know at the time of the invasion that there were no WMD." If that was used as her defense in a Nuremberg war criminal court, Rice would be exchanging her Stanford University designer suits for prison pinstripes.

That's how we get perpetual war in America: war criminals like Rice who lie as easy as breathing...and a compliant, intimidated media who let them get away with it.