This post is for MJ, who I have had the great pleasure of seeing again a couple times this week. Obviously everyone has made up their minds by now on whether the War in Iraq was necessary/illegal. The lines have been drawn, the camps are entrenched. I present this as an add-on to my arguments on the weekend, which after several drinks, were not as coherent as they otherwise could have been.
Without further ado I present Debunking 8 Anti-War Myths About The Conflict In Iraq via Let It Bleed. Allow me to whet your appetite.
- George Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
- A study released in March of 2003 by a British medical journal, the Lancet, showed that 100,000 civilians had been killed as a result of the US invasion.
- The Bush Administration claimed Iraq was responsible for 9/11.
- The war in Iraq was actually planned by people like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz back in 1998 at a think tank called the Project for the New American Century.
- The war on terror has nothing to do with Iraq.
- Saddam Hussein had no ties to terrorism.
- Saddam Hussein had no ties to Al-Qaeda.
- The Downing Street Memo proves Bush lied to the American people about the war.
Read the whole thing. It is quite illuminating. Heck, I am feeling charitable. If you have a link to "debunking the debunking" send it my way. To paraphrase Let It Bleed above, tonight we're going to party like it's 2003.
