Selling the War in Iraq

I am not a very smart person. I am not very well read. I watch cable news, read a few newspapers, magazines and some blogs on the internet. Before the US invaded Iraq, I knew two things to be true. One, the American forces would not find any WMDs in Iraq. I knew then that WMDs were used as a pre-text for invading Iraq. Two, the US was starting a war in search of unintended consequences. Our leaders' overly optimistic predictions about the flowering of democracy and receiving American forces with jubilation was naive at best and a dangerous delusion at worst. We had no idea what would happen in a country that was held together by a despot once he was deposed. It was obvious to me weeks before the invasion that this was an enormous gamble grounded in falsehoods and unexamined beliefs.

I know, I know you are probably thinking that with the benefit of hindsight, I have distorted or rewrote my own history just as the Bushies continue to do. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Sadly, my two predictions grounded in the little information I gathered have come to past. From my perch in the "unwashed" midwest, my bullshit detector was making loud noises.

Everyone should watch Bill Moyer's documentary "Buying the War."
Our pundit class inside the Beltway colluded with the neocons to bring us this mess. Good job guys!