Six Years
March 20th marks the sixth anniversary of the official invasion of Iraq. Of course, we now know that Special Forces teams went in earlier and the air forces of the US and Britain had been doing some “pre-emptive bombing” prior to the missile attacks on possible locations that the Shrubbery’s intelligence services [as opposed to the CIA, NSA, DIA, and the regular intel groups] swore contained Saddam Hussein.
For those who have short-term memory problems: Iraq did not have WMDs and, as a result, was not in violation of UN Resolution 1441. The UN weapons inspectors were forced out of Iraq by the actions of the President of the United States, not the President of Iraq. The “intelligence” was selected to support the desires of the White House, not the reality on the ground.
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“It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.” — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Feb. 7, 2003
Yeah, that really worked out well.
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He would probably classify it as a “known unknown” even though the DFH’s were screaming Vietnam all around him. No doubt he’ll write a book telling us how he knew all along that this would be a disaster but you have to back the President.