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In reply to the discussion: Are we really going to pretend we were fooled into the Iraq War? [View all]Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)When it became abundantly clear that Iraq had no WMDs, I somehow assumed that that fact would cause enormous outrage. I thought the president would either step down or be impeached. How could I have been so naive? All of a sudden the war wasn't about WMD at all, and nobody had ever thought Iraq had them. It was all about Regime Change, and besides, it was all Saddam's fault for letting everybody think he had WMD by not letting in the UN weapon's inspectors. That's right, the same people who had just a year earlier mocked Hans Blix as a complete idiot who was fooled by the crafty Iraqies hiding their WMD under his nose, suddenly pretended Hans Blix had never existed.
And nobody in the media called them on it. Everybody agreed that the war had been about Regime Change all along, and that Iraq had refused entry to the UN weapon's inspectors.
It was an utterly surreal experience.