Why this sudden push to rewrite history about the Iraq war?

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102. To a much, much smaller extent, the type of thinking leading up to the invasion of Iraq, are

happening right here in this thread.
The lack of critical thinking. As noted above, being critical of the poster, instead of the information in his OP. Only hearing what we want to hear. MadHound's information isn't wrong, somehow, but somehow MadHound is wrong.
No, he isn't wrong. This county wanted revenge. There were something like 12 to 14 (16?) million people around the world and in this country protesting against the invasion. Except for DU, most of us would have only heard/seen glossed over accounts of these protests.

What I remember the most about the run-up to the invasion, were the talking points, outright lies, propaganda, whatever, put by the bu$h administration, that didn't make a whole of sense to me. How could anyone listening to the talking points, not question them?

If people would have stopped and thought about what they were hearing, instead of going along with what they knew they were supposed to be hearing, if they had actually processed the Bullshit, maybe the criminal invasion of Iraq could have been stopped.
But no, too many people, by far the majority of people in this country, bought into the rhetoric. After all, one towel-head is the same as any other, right? The middle East was only a fuzzy, nebulous location, full of sand and camels. Many Americans could not find the Middle East on a world map, let alone Baghdad, and many still can't.

Never mind that we were told, 15 of the 19 were Saudis, with the rest being from Egypt and Lebanon, with none being from Iraq. But few questioned the bu$h rhetoric that we had to attack Iraq for something that they obviously had no part in. "Attack Iraq". It rhymes, adding credence to the rhetoric that we gotta do it, regardless.

Never mind Saddam was put in place by the United State to stabilize the area. Of that, he did a very good job of what he was charged wiht. Terrorists were not tolerated kindly. Baghdad was the center of civilization and learning, of the whole Middle East. It had world class medical institutions, world class museums. Women taught in the universities, were professors, doctors, managed business, drove cars. Women went about their daily routines in western clothing. But look at Baghdad now.

Saddam's sin was to threaten to stop using the US dollar and start using the Euro for oil. For that he had to go. He had to die, so we went in and murdered him. And that is the real reason we invaded Iraq and destroyed priceless artifacts, dating from the beginning of civilization. Once there, we stood by and watch as museums were plundered. We did nothing as hospitals were stripped of their medical supplies. We stopped any efforts to get the local infrastructure, water, electricity, up and running again, after removing the head of the government. We needlessly removed the whole government and made sure whatever was left, was non-functional! But, we made absolutely sure the Oil Ministry was well guarded and left intact.
And still we, in this country, yelled "HELL YEAH!!1!, they deserved what they got for 9/11!". There are still people on Democratic Underground, right now, as you read this, still of that mind. Those that swallow hook, line and sinker, the bu$h version, the lies, of what happened back then.