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The Failed Crusade For WMD
1/15/2005
This week the US officially concluded is search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The verdict? No such beasts. In other words, the war was a mistake.
21 months ago I was a tepid supporter of this war. Now I'm quite certain it was a sizeable mistake. A mistake to wage it, and even worse, a mistake to wage it with such incompetence. I've become very cynical of the Bush administration and of American policy in general -- something I've never been before. Hell, I even voted for a Democrat for the first time in my life.
Despite all this, I'm still dimly optimistic that a democracy can be salvaged from this mess. For reasons I can't fathom I still suspect that dumb luck will pull our arrogant asses out of the fire once again.
But then again, I was sure the insurgency would run out of steam months ago...
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