There are many things that annoy me about Kanan Makiya: like his deception, dishonesty, self-righteousness, conceit, self-congratulatory tone, and his desperate need to please Western Zionist audiences. Not to mentions that he feigns this morally tormented persona, in a bad imitation of another lousy person, Elie Wiesel. Both are fake poseurs. But what is most annoying is, his politics aside, his lies and fabrications. And of course when it comes to fans of Zionism, Western journalist standards of scrutiny and examination are tossed out of the window. Look at this in the New York Times: "Kanan Makiya, a scholar and Iraqi exile based in the United States, stumbled upon a potent trove of documents in Baghdad..." First, Makiya is not a trained scholar in Middle East and Islamic studies--and it shows: he dropped out of graduate school in architecture (notice how he always mentions that he "attended" MIT). Secondly, look at this sentence: stumbled upon? Are you kidding me? What? He was walking in the Green Zone and he "stumbled upon" the documents? He is taking credit now? No, armed goons hired by Ahmad Chalabi were the ones who drove to the building and they confiscated and stole the documents and gave them to Makiya's shop. And shame on Blanton for saying this: "Thomas S. Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, said he agreed with the Iraq Memory Foundation that access to documents like Baathist archive is a delicate issue that needs to be addressed with extreme care. “How do you have accountability, but not revictimize the victims?” he said." And let me ask Mr. Blanton since he is open minded about this "delicate" matter: would he mind if we store the NSA documents at Al-Asad Library in Damascus?