It was 10 years ago this evening that the court-appointed President Bush ordered the illegal invasion of Iraq* based of the false pretense that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
A year-and-a-half after failing to prevent the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, the spin-meisters in the Bush White House were working incessantly to transform that tragic failure into Bush's supposed "greatest strength." The facts that Americans were scared to death and that Bush had no actual strengths made this easier that it sounds.
Bush had already had his fabled BULLhorn scene at ground-zero where he said, "I hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." That part about the people who knocked those buildings down soon hearing from us was a lie, unless by "soon" he meant, soon after we had a competent, democratically elected president take office again. Bush had already ordered the invasion of Afghanistan. I (God help me!), much of the world, and something like 90% of Americans approved of Bush during this time because even though he was an unelected idiot, in the wake of 9/11, he was our unelected idiot.
But Bush had learned a lesson from his father, that even though President George H.W. Bush had a similarly high approval rating after his relatively successful Gulf War in 1991, he would not be re-elected because of his failure on the economy. Hence, Bush-the-more-stupid ordered the invasion of Iraq ten years ago today just so he could get re-elected. Mission Accomplished.
*The lying liars who tell lies at Fox News [sic] spun this to their non-news watching audience to be United Nations' General Secretary Kofi Annan's blunder.
See also: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/22/1196307/-Mea-Culpa?showAll=yes
and http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Happy_Anniversary
