As our war dead climbs over that grim number, we're still being subjected to mea culpas from liberal war hawks. I'm tired of them, and so is Jim Henley.
You didn’t have to be all that bright to oppose the Iraq War in advance. Heck, polls suggest that most Americans were dubious about the idea until the war became obviously inevitable. Real enthusiasm was confined to the elite media, the bipartisan defense-policy establishment and a bunch of Republican quasi-intellectuals who had spent ten years casting about for different countries to have a war - any war - with. I mean, for crying out loud, at one point our rulers declared that Saddam Hussein might attack America with remote-controlled model planes. You didn’t have to wait to bounce that one off the folks at your next MENSA meeting to judge its likelihood. Nor did you have to puzzle overlong, if someone tried to put that one by you, how much stock you should put in anything else that came out of their mouths.
Yeah. It seemed fairly evident to me that Iraq didn't harbor any of the terrorists who attacked us on September 11, that Aghanistan did, and that diverting our Army to go after Saddam made no sense.
The innate gullibility of our "elites" still astonishes me, and it frustrates me that the same crowd is still given space in editorial pages to explain that "if only we'd done it my way everything in Iraq would be peachy."
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