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Monday, April 05, 2004

Iraq

On the home front, Eric Alterman has it right:  those of us who opposed this war were right about every single goddamn thing that matters.  We didn’t predict specific people, places, and atrocities, but we did say, as Eric reminds us, that

The invasion of Iraq will cause, not prevent, terrorism.

The Bush administration was not to be trusted when it warned of the WMD threat.

Going in without the U.N. is worse than not going in at all.

They were asleep at the switch pre-9/11 and have been trying to cover this up ever since.

And they manipulated 9/11 as a pretext for a long-planned invasion of Iraq.

Any occupation by a foreign power, particularly one as incompetently planned as this one, will likely create more enemies than friends and put the U.S. in a situation similar at times to Vietnam, and at other times, similar to Israel’s occupation of Lebanon; both were disasters.

An invasion of Iraq will draw resources and attention away from the genuine perpetrators of the attack on us, and allow them to regroup for further attacks.

Let’s see here . . . we were right on the first count.  We’re looking pretty good on the second count.  Third count, OK.  Fourth count, fifth count, take it away, Richard Clarke and Rand Beers.  Right on the sixth count.  Seventh count, hmmmm, yes, on this one we were right.

But this is one of those things about which it is no consolation to be right.  Check out Zayed’s chilling account of the latest from Baghdad (and here’s Zayed on Fallujah).  And thanks to Marianne Cotugno for the link to Zayed’s site.

Posted by Michael on 04/05 at 02:17 PM
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