I was one of those people who used to believe what our intelligence professionals told us. Not anymore.
They told us there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I believed them. I found out later that I had been played for a fool, but the primitives didn't fall for it for one second.
Maybe this is what the primitives are talking about when they say that the democrats and the republicans have switched places.
I believe that the laptop from hell belongs to Hunter Biden but the gullible primitives believe the intelligence professionals who say that it's just Russian disinformation.
I had my doubts. but I believed that they believed it.
(I actually agree with George Costanza on that issue.)
I still believe that they believed it, and were genuinely surprised that they didn't find what they and we expected them to find.
But yeah, I had my doubts.
On the other hand, I didn't need that particular
casus belli to convince me.
I was in on the first adventure, in 1991, and considered it (in the words of
Beatrix Kiddo bleep) "unfinished business". In my opinion, Iraq broke the ceasefire agreement
very quickly and should have faced instant resumption of hostilities at that time.
I had been discharged in 1999, but tried to re-enter in 2002 when people started muttering about a REFOR
GER Iraq. However, I had broken my foot in 2001 and had (have) steel holding one of the bones together; this was a disqualifier as it could become a secondary projectile in the event of something nearby going boom.
Even if I had been convinced that the "WMD" thing was trumped up on purpose, I had been expecting trouble in Iraq and that it would be a response to Iraqi military action, and would have tried to re-enter anyway.
I remain convinced that the 2003 events were a military victory, and that the post-victory situation was mis-handled. Should have been, like Germany and Japan, completely occupied and administered militarily until all resistance was ended, whether by the acquiescence or decease of the "insurgents".
