The 9/11 Post

It's about Iraq. Now, some critics say that Iraq has nothing to do with the War on Terror. The problem is that critics have also claimed if our resources were spent catching bin Laden instead of fighting in Iraq, we would have killed him by now and all terror would end. So now Iraq has been conflated with the War on Terror. Good job overplaying your hand.

So, why did we go into Iraq? The worst reason seems to be that there were nuclear weapons ready to go. That was the reason that was used with the UN. The US wanted to go into Iraq because Saddam lied about his WMDs, provided no proof that he destroyed his WMDs and had no inspections for years before that. If he had nothing to hide, he made a good show of having something to hide. Why not? France assured Iraq that they would veto any military action so they could make secret oil deals.

So we went in alone. That was the mistake. Not a failure of leadership rather than a failure of solidarity. And that is the fault of the rest of the world.

And what have we done? Gotten Saddam? Check. Ended the terorism in Iraq? Apparently, since the complaints are about the civil war. Did we end the insurgency? Maybe, since the only thing left is the much lamented civil war. Two down, one to go.

I am reminded of the 2004 election. Kerry was for and against the war. The democrats talked down the economy when it was bad and the war was going better, then talked down the war when it was going bad and the econlmy was getting better. They'd better hope Iraq doesn't get better in October because that's all it will take to decimate their chances.