"Just look at the composition of the civilian leadership in the U.S. Department of Defense under this administration from January 2001. A substantial number of key positions in that agency were filled with appointees whose primary focus -- if not their ONLY focus -- throughout the 1990s had been to advocate for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
The fact that many of these people were so thoroughly wrong on Iraq despite their Ivy League backgrounds and years of "expertise" as Beltway think-tank
jack@sses is a scathing indictment of this administration."
But you're not posting ANY hard evidence to back up your assertions. Why should anyone believe you? Is your own honesty unimpeachable?
Why should anyone believe you? Is your own honesty unimpeachable? Yes.
"Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus (I never lie . . . but I am a savage)." --- William Wallace (Mel Gibson), Braveheart
Do some research on Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz -- and see what they were saying about Iraq before the 2000 election, after 9/11 and throughout 2002, and in the time leading up to the start of the war in March 2003. Perle in particular is a curious fellow of questionable character. You can find quotes of his in which he actually claimed that the U.S. could win the war in Iraq with little more than a small group of Special Forces soldiers . . . You remember -- all that silly crap about how the Shiites and Kurds would rise up and topple Saddam Hussein for us?