The Legacy, cont'd

MANIFESTO

Apparently, the Bushies have put their pinheads together and decided that it really wasn't their fault that the Iraq invasion and occupation turned out to be among the nation's greatest fiascoes. If only the intelligence (especially regarding the so-called WMDs) had been better, the argument goes, they would've made a much more informed choice. President Prevaricator asserted this ridiculous position the other day, and now his brain is repeating that inane claim.

Of course,

the administration—specifically Vice President Dick Cheney—reportedly advanced faulty or poorly sourced information to fit the conclusion that Iraq possessed WMD, or that intelligence reports from the run-up to the war suggested that such a case was flimsy.

That is, the ideology trumped the facts, but now the Vulcans want to argue that, if only they'd known the facts, the quagmire that became Iraq wouldn't have happened.

One hopes that Americans will see through this nonsense, but Glenn Greenwald posits that they're not getting much help doing so.