A number of the so-called "neo-conservatives" actually made public statements in the late 1990s and October of 2000 in which they called upon the Clinton administration to respond forcefully to the embassy bombings and attack on the Cole -- by toppling Saddam Hussein. There was no shred of evidence of any Iraqi involvement in any of these attacks, but the obsession of these neo-cons with a plan of "regime change" in Iraq was so utterly pathological that they didn't have a clue about how serious a threat radical Islam posed to the U.S.
It should come as no surprise that nothing dramatic occurred in the first eight months of 2001 . . . many of these morons ended up working in the Bush administration.
You're totally screw up.
If you use the word "neo-cons" you are a RAT!
If you blame Bush for everything, you are a RAT!
It breaks my heart to see our soldiers dying in Iraq. This war was wrong from the beginning. Months leading up to the war Bush would make daily speechs about Iraq's WMD. He sent Colin Powell with "hard numbers" on WMD to sell his war to the UN. The CIA was given deliberately false testimony on WMD per Colin Powells own admission. There were some people trying to tell the CIA prior to the war that there wasn't any WMD. Some top officials in the CIA stated that they don't care if there is any or not we're going to war.
If we are trying to fight terrorism why did we not go after Saudi Arabia where 18 of the 19 hijackers came from. Can someone tell me why we didn't lean on North Korea more for having an illegal nuclear weapon and being threatened by their dictator? Oh thats right, we can handle that crisis through "diplomatic" means.