The March of Folly, Redux (was: Re: [lbo-talk] Let Ralph Debate in 2004)

[N P Childs]

The scary part about all this old news is that after 4-5 years of debate in 
the public domain, planning in private presumably since 1991 (at least), 
and a generally compliant to enthusiastic media and public (ie. not prone 
to asking questions), the current bloody fiasco is the best this bunch of 
clowns could pull off.

Having passed the level of human tragedy some time ago, this level of 
incompetence is verging on the cosmic. Seeing as 'The March of Folly' is 
already taken as title, any guesses on the eventual title of the history of 
GWII?

PC

At 11/15/2003,, you wrote:


>Jon Jahanning asked: Where was it revealed that the Bush invasion was "in
>the works for
> >at least five years"?
>
>- see bloew:-
>
>http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/2003/01/27/news/local/5025024.htm
>
>Invading Iraq not a new idea for Bush clique
>4 years before 9/11, plan was set
>
>...But in reality, Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and a small band of
>conservative ideologues had begun making the case for an American invasion
>of Iraq as early as 1997 - nearly four years before the Sept. 11 attacks and
>three years before President Bush took office.
>An obscure, ominous-sounding right-wing policy group called Project for the
>New American Century, or PNAC - affiliated with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld's
>top deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Bush's brother Jeb - even urged then-President
>Clinton to invade Iraq back in January 1998.

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