Neocon, nice article. Unfortunately, that's what most of the world and, many moderate Americans, suspected pre-invasion. It's ironic for the Times to highlight this view after we've conducted an invasion based upon the fears and concerns generated by the "imminent threat" messages that were continuously hammered at us by Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Rice, Wolf-- and others.
I often listened to their speeches and thought that maybe the administration knew something the rest of the world didn't. The keys that eventually led me to believe that the administration had a hidden agenda, were the many inconsistencies in their assertions, the highly emotional level of their rhetoric and the fact that they couldn't come up with a good answer for "why now."
When we send our young to kill, die and come home wounded and maimed, we should be the skeptics from hell, not believers in the tooth fairy. |
