You knew that Iraq had WMDs in your heart, but your heart is black as coal, you have no empathy for others. You knew that Iraq had WMDs in your mind, but your mind is weak and easily fooled, you can't follow through the simplest logic.
That's quite a lot of arrogance for someone who wrote the following less than three weeks before Baghdad fell:
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That's right. The Israelis put a siege on a highly divided city 1/4 the population of Baghdad, only 10 square miles in area, with the assistance of one of the local ethnic groups, with supply lines of a tiny fraction of our lines to Kuwait, without our soldier's compunction to avoid civilian casualties, with the limited objective of uprooting a foreign occupier (the PLO, which had "overstayed its welcome in the country") as opposed to a very long time domestic government (the Baathists), with Beirut surrounded on one side by an easy to control water barrier, and the siege nevertheless took 70 days and resulted in a negotiated agreement. The Israeli experience in Lebanon was a disaster not only for them, but also for their Christian allies.
Our problem in Baghdad is harder than the Israeli one in Beirut on every single point of comparison. Baghdad is bigger, the people are more united against us, our war aims are broader, we care more about what the civilians think about us, our supply lines are longer, Americans care less about Iraq than Israelis care about Beirut, our level of protest against the war is much larger than that of the Israeli public, and despite all these advantages that the Israelis had over our situation, it took them 70 days to achieve only a negotiated settlement.
Or who wrote the following last December:
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The Bush administration is continuing to fake a hard line on Iraq so that they can take credit for success when Saddam is supposedly separated from WMDs. If they quit with the noise, and Saddam continued with the cooperation (as he would, in order to achieve the elimination of sanctions), it would make it obvious that Iraq was not being forced by the US to suffer inspections.
For the second quote, I just punched in a random post number to see what would turn up. I'm sure that a more thorough study would turn up plenty of other material.
Eric |
