Wednesday, September 14, 2005
But Saddam was a Bad Man....
Yes, he was. But he was also the cork in the bottle in Iraq. And Bush's war pulled it out.
We can't wait to hear the president claim that "no one could have foreseen" that Iraq would descend into sectarian violence if Saddam was removed without some viable control being put in place after he was gone.
Because lots of people foresaw it. The experts all warned about it. The people who know the region jumped up and down trying to explain that Iraq was a powder-keg held in check by a madman, and that if you removed him you'd need to put something solid back in the bottle or the whole place would explode.
But they experts were hooted down by the Bush administration and its ideological allies in the media. Not that anyone will remember that now.
Nope, it's coming, as sure as the sun sets in the west: "No one could have foreseen..."
We can't wait to hear the president claim that "no one could have foreseen" that Iraq would descend into sectarian violence if Saddam was removed without some viable control being put in place after he was gone.
Because lots of people foresaw it. The experts all warned about it. The people who know the region jumped up and down trying to explain that Iraq was a powder-keg held in check by a madman, and that if you removed him you'd need to put something solid back in the bottle or the whole place would explode.
But they experts were hooted down by the Bush administration and its ideological allies in the media. Not that anyone will remember that now.
Nope, it's coming, as sure as the sun sets in the west: "No one could have foreseen..."
