Fisk: How Arrogant Was the Path to War

[kskiska]

BEIRUT, 5 September 2003 — How arrogant was the path to war. As US President Bush now desperately tries to cajole the old UN donkey to rescue him from Iraq — he who warned us that the UN was in danger of turning into a League of Nations “talking shop” if it declined him legitimacy for his invasion — we are supposed to believe that no one in Washington could have guessed the future.

The neoconservative, pro-Israeli American “advisers” around Donald Rumsfeld — unsurprisingly silent now that their pre-war enthusiasm has trapped146 , 000American troops in the biggest rat’s nest in the Middle East — say only that “mistakes” were made in their assumptions.

Messers Bush and Blair fantasized their way to war with all those mythical weapons of mass destruction and “imminent threats” from Iraq — whether of the45 -minute variety or not — and of the postwar ‘liberation’, ‘democracy’ and map-changing they were going to bestow upon the region. But the record shows just how many warnings the Bush administration received from sane and decent men in the days before we plunged into this terrible adventure.

Take the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings in Washington on the eve of war. Assistant Under Secretary Douglas Feith, one of Rumsfeld’s “neocons”, revealed that an office for “postwar planning” had only been opened three weeks earlier. He and Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman conceded that the Pentagon had been “thinking” about postwar Iraq for ten months. Feith’s testimony bears close examination.

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http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=31414&d=5&m=9&y=2003

[ewagner]

1. We knew it

Now the rest of the world knows what a 5-star f**kup this operation really is.

[He loved Big Brother]

2. *'s warnings..

* "But the record shows just how many warnings the Bush administration received from sane and decent men in the days before we plunged into this terrible adventure." *


Terrible "adventure" indeed.

And anyway...What do sanity and decency have to do with PNAC?