Thoughts on the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion
1. There was no intelligence failure. The good intelligence was there, but purposely ignored.
2. Memo to George W. Bush: You don't get to be called a war president if you are the one that started the war.
3. Memo to Donald Rumsfeld, who said that you go to war with the army you have, not the army you want: That sounds very wise and it's true enough -- if you are the one being attacked. Not true at all if you are waging a war of choice.
4. A war of choice, regardless of motivations, is by definition an unjust war.
5. If you don't have a back up plan for when things go wrong you don't have a plan.
2. Memo to George W. Bush: You don't get to be called a war president if you are the one that started the war.
3. Memo to Donald Rumsfeld, who said that you go to war with the army you have, not the army you want: That sounds very wise and it's true enough -- if you are the one being attacked. Not true at all if you are waging a war of choice.
4. A war of choice, regardless of motivations, is by definition an unjust war.
5. If you don't have a back up plan for when things go wrong you don't have a plan.
The intelligence was inconvenient to their ends. We are a fearful, terrified nation, clinging to our guns and our massively inflated military, and I am not sure why. Maybe a collective inferiority complex run amok. Depressing.
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