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Cheney, who said some years ago, that going into Iraq wto topple Hussein, would be a quagmire and would end in failure is one of history’s great hypocrites. He and Bush deserve each other. Only a little more than a year to go before Hillary Clinton is president.
so the question i puzzle over:
-did they know they were going to make a mess and they did it on purpose, and this is all part of the masterplan?
or
-is the mess in iraq – and elsewhere – the result of stupidity and incompetence (and bad policy)?
you constantly hear the right say things like “no one could have predicted…[no WMD, sectarian splintering in iraq, rise of Iran into Iraqi vacuum, control of Afghanistan by warlords]” … and yet, all of that has been predicted by everyone I’ve read over the past 6 years, but it was either ridiculed or ignored.
Yet now it appears that Cheney, architect of US foreign policy, predicted it, and understood it too.
so: what to think? cynics with a devlish masterplan to destabilize the middle east? or, bumbling ideological idiots?
Funny to note Cheney’s change of heart appears to predate Sept 11 … see his signature, along with all the heavies of the Bush administration, on the 1998 Project for a New American Century statement of principles. Hmm interesting, he is not listed as a signatory on the 1998 letter PNAC sent to Clinton about Iraq, which includes this para: