Everyone agrees that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, but it was a mistake this entire country made. Not a mistake Bush made. Not a mistake Cheney made. Not a mistake McCain made. Not a mistake Clinton made. Not a mistake I made. A mistake we made as a collective democracy.
Well...as far as Congress goes, that is mostly right.
But there were people in the the military and the intelligence community who warned us about the pitfalls of this policy. they were ignored, marginalized and forced to retire, too.
In a post 9/11 world, this country cried out for action against possible terrorists, including Iraq. It was the RIGHT choice based on the information we had at the time.
You mean it was the right choice given the cherry picked information we were being fed by neo con idealogues?
In hindsight, the information was bad.
In hindsight, we find that we were propagandized to by idealogues, you mean?
Or do you still believe that the POTUS didn't know that his advisors were systematically eliminating all decenting voices in his government?
Because I might be able to buy that...that Bush was out of the loop, and that his own closest advisors were actually running the show by controlling information that he got to see.
But as to your theory that the best information avialable to our government being that Saddam was an immediate nuclear threat?
No, we know that wasn't true, now. And we should have know that then, too.
Some who were in positions to know the truth, knew it, they told this admin. the truth, and were punished for not being TEAM PLAYERS.
This team player mindset, incidently, is why I think America's obsession with organized sports is a tragic mistake for our culture, too, BTW.
It rewards group think, and punishes independent thinkers at ever turn.