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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Rambi who wrote (249070)5/6/2008 5:44:58 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793924
 
But most reprehensible, once the decision to do so was made, was the refusal to acknowledge the history and culture of this country that had never truly BEEN a country and had no foundation on which to build something workable, and ignore any oppositional advice

Rambi, that's just not true. Iraq had been one of the most educated and advanced Arab countries before Saddam ruined it. The Kurds want out, but the Arabs are Iraqis. That's what the people who are there now say. They say the loudest explosions they ever heard in Baghdad were on the day the Iraqis won the pan-Arab soccer tournament. Saddam ran a totalitarian police state and evidence for how badly he had wrecked the place was not available until after 2003.

Nor is it true that the administration just ignored oppositional advice. It would be far more accurate to say that State and DoD were feuding, but policy makers were taking options seriously. Then when things went pear-shaped (I like this Brit expression) everybody in State and CIA rushed out to write revisionist CYA books saying "told ya!" which were far from the truth of the matter. George "slam dunk" Tenet's efforts in this direction were so brazen that not even the liberal reviewers bought it. I'm interested in Doug Feith's new book, since unlike the others he has apparently worked hard to document his claims with contemporaneous documents.
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