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I feel it's a stretch to say 'he lied us into the Iraq war' as if everyone based their decisions on that. There's an very unfortunate tendency in political discussions to rely on fallacies of composition, where an instance of some phenomenon is taken as equivalent to a whole. Throwing that out with no further context or discussion looks like a genetic fallacy as well. The White House has already acknowledged the reported conversation appears to be authentic.
I don't even remember Goldberg or anything he wrote about it, fwiw.
Glenn Greenwald called Goldberg "one of the leading media cheerleaders for the attack on Iraq," saying Goldberg had "compiled a record of humiliating falsehood-dissemination in the run-up to the war that rivaled Judy Miller's both in terms of recklessness and destructive impact".
Greenwald's assessment harmonizes with personal experience.
> Is this the same Jeff Goldberg who lied us into the Iraq War?
Does not mean "we should doubt this article" but actually means
> I think everyone involved in the Iraq mess should have been civically un-personed decades ago. They should be limited to unclean jobs, and be required to walk a few steps behind their un-tainted betters. Yet as the Osho once said, "the people are retarded," so the architects of that catastrophe still have jobs. I will not waste any opportunity to remind people of what they did. The children do not understand how badly their futures have been diminished by this shedding of innocent blood.
My mistake.
A simple question is sufficient to direct intelligent people to his wikipedia. That is enough.