Charles Pierce pretty much says all that can be said about Bush's Debacle - The Iraq War 10 years later... it was a horrible, shameful episode. And we were all demeaned and damaged by it. A crime against humanity...
Charles Pierce: "This is the one event on which the country's chronic historical
amnesia cannot be allowed to bring itself into play. The country was
lied into a war by a raft of criminals, greedheads, and geopolitical
fantasts. These latter were enabled by a cowardly political opposition
and a largely supine elite press. Hans Blix was right. Paul Wolfowitz
was wrong. Robert Fisk was right. David Frum was wrong. The McClatchy
guys were right. The late Tim Russert was wrong. Eric Shinseki was
right, and Anthony Zinni was right, and Joe Wilson was right, and George
Packer, Michael O'Hanlon, and Richard Perle were all wrong. George H.W.
Bush was right (in 1989) and his useless son was stupid and wrong.
There is no absolution available to any of the people who helped the
country down into this epic political and military disaster no matter
how lachrymose their apologies or how slick their arguments.
George W. Bush should spend the rest of his days dogged by regiments
of wounded veterans. Richard Cheney should be afflicted at all hours by
the howls of widows and of mothers who have lost sons and daughters.
Colin Powell — and his pal, MSNBC star Lawrence Wilkerson — should shut
the hell up about how sorry they are and go off to a monastery somewhere
to do penance for what they didn't have the balls to try and stop. This
catastrophe killed more actual people than it killed the careers of the
people who planned it and cheered it on. We should all be ashamed. And
we're not."