Sharing the Blame

I just heard an appalling piece on NPR about the "blue-ribbon" commission who investigated the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story. They interviewed the Chairman James Schlesinger, and he basically whitewashed the whole thing. It was VERY reminiscent of the 9/11 commission.

But the thing that got me is that they kept emphasizing: there was no ONE person to blame (and certainly Rumsfeld was not even mentioned for any blame). It was a "failure of leadership", but it wasn't any one commander's fault.

Well fuck that. That is EXACTLY the crap they pulled with the 9/11 commission. No one to blame for this mess. We'll just SPREAD the blame, so the blame gets so diffused, it is fucking worthless.

These people love to talk about the free market and competition, but here they sound like socialists , for cripes sake. Share, share, share.

I'm also quite annoyed, because this Schlesinger guy was supposed to be a former SecDef and here he was defending the Iraq policy ("it wasn't a failure"). He gave the old "you can't plan for everything" line.

Pure hogwash. I am SO sick of this administration, and Washington in general. CAn we shake thing up a bit with this upcomingelection?

UPDATE: the WaPo weighs in the next day