"*** Iraq was not a good faith mistake. Bush and Cheney didn’t sit down with the intelligence community, ask for their best assessment of the situation, and then reluctantly conclude that war was the only option. They decided right at the beginning — literally before the dust of 9/11 had settled — to use a terrorist attack by religious extremists as an excuse to go after a secular regime that, evil as it was, had nothing to do with that attack. To make the case for the splendid little war they expected to fight, they deliberately misled the public, making an essentially fake case about WMD — because chemical weapons, which many believed Saddam had, are nothing like the nukes they implied he was working on — and insinuating the false claim that Saddam was behind 9/11.Amen. Read Krugman's entire post here.
"*** It was quite clear at the time that the case for war was fake — God knows I thought it was glaringly obvious, and tried to tell people — and fairly obvious as well that the attempt to create a pro-American Iraq after the invasion was likely to be an expensive failure. The question for war supporters shouldn’t be, would you have been a supporter knowing what you know now. It should be, why didn’t you see the obvious back then?"
Links
- Steve Benen
- Daily Kos
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- Political Wire
- The Plum Line
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- Slate
- Kevin Drum
- Salon
- Empty Wheel
- Axios
- Ed Kilgore
- Washington Monthly
- First Read
- PoliticusUSA
- Right Wing Watch
- The Onion
- The Rude Pundit
- Eschaton
- The Raw Story
- Think Progress
- Hullabaloo
- Media Matters
- Democratic Underground
- Crooks and Liars
- Blazer's Edge
- ESPN
Monday, May 18, 2015
What Paul Krugman Says . . .
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