Bush, Cheney and his intel chiefs primarily relied on the lies of Achmed Chalabi, a crook and a thief who was probably an Iranian agent and provided them with US secrets on Iraq. Bush called Chalabi “the George Washington of Iraq” which proved to be really ridiculous since the Iraqi people knew what a sleazy bum he was and when he ran in the presidential election, Chalabi got all of one-half of one percent of the vote. Pat Paulsen would have done better.
Ridiculous indeed.
What is sad to me is not what we did (which was bad) but what we missed doing.
This was of the time of the great heyday of Rush, conservatism was stronger. He could have worked on relationships with Russia (heading off the near WW3 today) , trade imbalances with the growing industrial might of China, Immigration. Above all he could have focused on the growing threat of the leftist rot from within.
He could have worked on eliminating the lefts growing control of media, universities, intelligence agencies. Growing power of the LGBTQ alliance Etc.
He would have had massive and grassroots support in doing all this.
But no instead they focused on wars in the Mideast and how much money his wealthy supporters in companies like black rock and Halliburton could make on contracts. And all the while the Dems were slowly accumulating power by community activism, working on plans, coaching and grooming a gay Kenyan named Hussein.