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In reply to the discussion: Tweety gets it right: "You are wrong, wrong, wrong, over & over again & you never get ashamed of it" [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)and Matthews believed it. Many people did. Bush was telling a massive lie, with our military as props and high drama.
However, when you look at others who bought the lie and later recanted, you find actual mongers of war, promoters of the invasion, mockers of those who opposed the war. Cheerleaders for Cheney, such as Andrew Sullivan, who wrote the following lovelies....
"Almost the whole academic class, the media elites, the college-educated urbanites, the entertainment industry and so on are now reflexively anti-war. Worse in fact: there is very little argument or debate going on in these sub-populations, simply an assumption that war against Saddam is wrong, and that all right-thinking people agree about this."
"Suddenly, September 10 again. Friends calling from New York City, asking if I have a spare room. Nervous glances up at the TV screens in the gym. Greta van Susteren declaring a specific cyanide alert in New York City, where none existed. Duct tape jokes. Tanks at Heathrow. It is a war, isn't it? It reminds me that the anti-war protestors are not in fact trying to prevent a war. They cannot -- because one has already broken out. They merely want to give up on one critical front.
The trouble is: our enemies won't. "
" As regular readers know, I've long advocated cutting France out of any post-war Iraqi settlement. No oil contracts, no peace-keepers, no influence as far as we can help it. Charles Krauthammer makes the same point today. After what the French have tried to do to destroy American diplomacy, wreck Tony Blair, and delay a war until it might actually be more dangerous for American troops, they deserve more than indifference."
More context of the time here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/behold-the-hatred-resentment-and-mockery-aimed-at-anti-iraq-war-protesters/274230/