Remember when Paul Wolfowitz admitted in 2003 almost five years ago to the day that there never were any weapons of mass destruction? The Bush Administration had decided to use the WMD rationale ‘for bureaucratic reasons.’ He said, For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.”
The Scott McClellan tell-all book is reminding us now that the U.S. and its allies were duped into a war of convenience that has costs tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, over 4,000 us lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, and has destroyed an entire nation.
I can think of no singular foreign policy mistake that was costlier than the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq.
Do you feel any safer now? How’s your faith in government?
Source
WMD emphasis was ‘bureaucratic’, BBC News, 29 May 2003
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