George Bush, pere, said in his autobiography that they decided to not invade Iraq because they could not figure out what to do then -- they knew this was going to happen. Maybe Dubya was expecting a miracle, that God would show up and smite the evildoers. That's the only thing I can figure. So, no, it wasn't willful ignorance. There was no ignorance involved: this was calculated. (I'm betting that it's part of the overall Dubya plan to bankrupt the US goverment, at which point disposing of social security and welfare and education aid will be vastly easier: they can set up a similar false dichotomy to justify it.)
I don't think we should leave, now that we have converted Iraq from a nasty but small pestilence into the biggest and most sophisticated training grounds for terrorists in the world. But that doesn't mean that we can continue on our current path, because it'll continue directly on to a full-scale Vietnam.
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I don't think we should leave, now that we have converted Iraq from a nasty but small pestilence into the biggest and most sophisticated training grounds for terrorists in the world. But that doesn't mean that we can continue on our current path, because it'll continue directly on to a full-scale Vietnam.