| One by one the rationales fall away: WMDs, the al Qaeda connection, "Saddam gassed his own people..." The really sad thing is all this was known and in the public domain before the Administration opted to pull the trigger.
That's an interesting point in the Pelletiere essay about control of the water.
Kind of off-topic, but Steve Gilliard has a theory that it was the Washington sniper that got the pundit class all freaked out and in the "bomb anybody, bomb them now" mode leading up to the war. They're just as much to blame for not challenging the Known Lies about Saddam in the runup to the invasion.
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That's an interesting point in the Pelletiere essay about control of the water.
Kind of off-topic, but Steve Gilliard has a theory that it was the Washington sniper that got the pundit class all freaked out and in the "bomb anybody, bomb them now" mode leading up to the war. They're just as much to blame for not challenging the Known Lies about Saddam in the runup to the invasion.
- tom moody 7-09-2004 11:01 pm