In the run up to the war in Iraq, George Bush seemed to give a different justification each week. Each one was met with growing suspicion by his critics, and it seemed that the White House just kept them coming fast and furious until something stuck. Nuclear weapons? Fabricated. 45 minutes until a bio weapons attack? Discredited. Saddam in league with al Qaeda? Made up. The September 11 hijackers were Iraqi? Not true.
Lots of people claimed, when this started, that Bush and the Neo Conservatives had decided long ago to invade Iraq; and they set out to justify it after the decision had been made. And had they thought further and actually been prepared for the war and it’s aftermath, the end might have justified the means.
Instead, they had only one goal in the plan: an outright, quick victory and the head of Saddam Hussein. It didn’t occur to them that we would find ourselves in a dangerous guerilla war. It obviously occurred to a lot of liberal pundits and troublemakers. Why didn’t the White House plan for this eventuality, if for no other reason than to show the panty-waist leftists a thing or two?
Black and white. That’s how this administration sees things. Good or evil. With us or against us. Well, as we’ve discovered in Afghanistan and Iraq, there is an awful lot of gray out there.
