I wasn't duped. I wrote dozens of letters in the months before the invasion of Iraq... and resigned the Republican party. Historians, diplomats, Arabs, oilmen, expats and a lot of military brass opposed the invasion.
We knew Iraq was crippled by two decades of war and sanctions.
We knew it would be a sensational blunder and that the oil business hates a warzone. We knew that it would make Iran ascendant.
We also knew about the PNAC, Bibi's Clean Break Strategy and Operation Mass Appeal that the British kicked off in 1998.
So, where the hell were you, colonel?