TheNextHurrah: Enough Already With Calling Iraq A "Mistake"

October 26, 2005

Enough already with calling Iraq a “mistake”

By Meteor Blades

Someone said it again today. Invading Iraq was a mistake. Every time it gets said, I grind another layer of enamel off my teeth. Nancy Pelosi says it. John Kerry says it. Mikhail Gorbachev says it. Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero says it. Even the occasional Republican says it. And recent polls indicate 55% to 59% of Americans think it.

Every one of them is wrong. Invading Iraq was no mistake. It was bloody treason. And the traitors still rule us instead of breaking rocks at Leavenworth.

They knowingly, willingly, unhesitatingly pronounced what they knew to be lies and marginalized, denigrated and smeared contrary-minded people, manipulated real evidence, concocted fake evidence, tricked an American population traumatized, fearful and furious about terrorism and sent young men and women off to a war at the tip of a bayonet named “9/11.”

A mistake is when you hammer your thumb instead of the nail. A mistake is when you choose c) instead of d) on the SAT. A mistake is when you put too much garlic in the minestrone. Invading Iraq was no damned mistake. And calling it a mistake is more than a mere slip of the tongue. It sets a precedent. Pretty soon, everybody will be saying invading Iraq was a mistake. And in 20 years, your grandkids will be studying out of textbooks that call it a mistake.

Instead of calling it what it really was. Sedition.

Over and over again for three years we’ve had our faces rubbed in the evidence. Yet, every day, someone calls this perfidious, murderous scheme a mistake. As if invading Iraq were a foreign policy mishap. Oopsy.

Stop it already. People do not commit treachery by mistake.

As we full well know, even before George W. Bush was scooted into office 5-to-4, the men he came to front for were already at work plotting their rationale for sinking deeper military and economic roots in the Middle East, petropolitics and neo-imperialist sophistry greedily intertwined. When they stepped into office, as Richard Clarke explained to us , terrorism gave them no worries. They blew off Clarke and they blew off Hart-Rudman with scarcely a fare-thee-well. Then, when they weren’t figuring out how to lower taxes on their pals and unravel the tattered social safety net, they focused - as Paul O’Neill informed us - on finding the right excuse to persuade the American people to go to war with Saddam Hussein as a prelude to going to war with some of his neighbors. In less than nine months, that excuse dropped into their laps in the form of Osama bin Laden’s kamikaze crews.

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"...they focused - as Paul O’Neill informed us - on finding the right excuse to persuade the American people to go to war with Saddam Hussein as a prelude to going to war with some of his neighbors. In less than nine months, that excuse dropped into their laps in the form of Osama bin Laden’s kamikaze crews."

My opinion: "that excuse" didn't just "drop into" the neocons' treacherous laps. Think "new Pearl Harbor" (the neocons' words, not mine.)

"Nothing happens by chance in politics"?

I do too

We need to start using these words here on DU to describe the behavior of the WHIGs.

Agreed? Enough with this "mistake" language. We knew before they went to war that the reasons were trumped and based on information from the first Iraq war.

However, not long ago you didn't see many in Congress who had the guts to even call the invasion a mistake. This is a positive step toward fuller national awareness.

coming from the same root as seduce: attract, allure, entice.
And the US Congress and people were seduced by the threat of nuclear, chemical or biological attack, topped with a conscious or subconscious need for revenge. Bush et al circumvented the traditional authority of the state in the matter of attacking Iraq, just as they did in every area of governmental oversight, by driving out, firing or in some manner punishing the critics and whistle blowers at the Pentagon, the Dept. of Education, the FDA, the FBI , FEMA, the CIA, etc.

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unhappycamper
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today the headlines made me angry...

For some reason, I thought that rule applied only to Late Breaking News. Now I know.