Arianna Huffington: "Iraq At Four Years - Past Is Prologue" (Excellent History of the War Scam)

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Iraq at Four Years: The Past is Indeed Prologue

So here we are, four years into the greatest foreign policy debacle in U.S. history. Four years, and still no end in sight.

The past and the future. There are some -- mostly those inside the White House and their shills in the media and on Capitol Hill -- who would have you believe the two have nothing to do with each other. "Let's not look at the past," they say, "let's focus on where we go from here."

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On this inauspicious anniversary, here is a look at the past -- and the people -- that brought us to this point, as I saw them in columns and blog posts:

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September 30, 2002: It appears that Bush is so intent on getting Saddam, so obsessively tightly gripped by a need to succeed where his war hero dad failed, so determined to lay the murderous 9/11 assault at Baghdad's door, that he's regressed to that level of childhood development where fantasy, reality and wish fulfillment are all mixed up. Except that this time, things like nuclear weapons and the safety of the world for the next few decades are involved. Now, I'm no psychologist, but I believe there is a clinical term for this condition: going off the deep end.

February 19, 2003: To hell with worldwide protests, an unsupportive Security Council, a diplomatically dubious Hans Blix, an Osama giddy at the prospect of a united Arab world, and a panicked populace grasping at the very slenderreed of duct tape and Saran Wrap to protect itself from the inevitable terrorist blow-back -- the business of America is still business.

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