Since NoWarBlog is no longer in existence, I decided to occassionaly post on the topic of Iraq as well, given that even US officers are finally admitting the US is there for the long haul. I am particularly disgusted by all the hypocrisy around the Newsweek story. In light of the fact that there are well over a 100,000 US soldiers in Iraq for years to come, it behooves us all to remember this little incident . Juan Cole, a favorite of mine, lays it out beautifully in Salon. [view ad to read article].
“Tens of thousands of people are dead in Iraq, including more than 1,600 U.S. soldiers and Marines, because of false allegations made by President George W. Bush and…Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, about Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and equally imaginary active nuclear weapons program. Bush, Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice repeatedly made unfounded allegations that led to the continuing disaster in Iraq, much of which is now an economic and military no man’s land beset by bombings, assassinations, kidnappings and political gridlock.”