William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

At Salon, Glen Greenwald has an interview with Michael O’Hanlon, co-author with Ken Pollack on the New York Times op-ed piece that was quickly pounced on by the Bush Administration and Iraq Occupation supporters as being the ultimate evidence that the Escalation of the Iraq Occupation was a grand success.

O’Hanlon’s answers, along with several other facts now known, demonstrate rather conclusively what a fraud this Op-Ed was, and even more so, the deceitfulness of the intense news coverage it generated. Most of the critical attention in the immediate aftermath of the media blitz focused on the misleading depiction of the pro-war Pollack and O’Hanlon as “critics of the administration.” To his credit, O’Hanlon acknowledged (in my interview with him, though never in any of the media appearances he did) that many of the descriptions applied to him — including Dick Cheney’s claim that the Op-Ed was written by “critics of the war” — were inaccurate.

O’Hanlon, who deserves credit for speaking with Greenwald and speaking openly, had to say quite a bit, and you can access the entire transcript at the Salon article. Now we’ll all wait with bated breath to see if O’Hanlon’s words after the fact get as much media play as the original editorial did.

–WKW

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