Iraq: "The greatest foreign debacle of a lifetime."

h.d.s. greenway in the boston globe...

We know now that the decision to invade Iraq was made on a neo-imperial design for the Middle East, and weapons of mass destruction were the excuse that people would accept. We know that this administration took advantage of Sept. 11 to scratch its Iraq itch, even though Sept. 11 had nothing to do with Iraq.

We know now that then secretary of state Colin Powell's WMD performance at the United Nations was nonsense, and, as he himself admits, an indelible stain on his record and reputation. We know how men like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bought into a utopian grand design and took a deeply inexperienced young president along with them.

And we know now what a deep and damaging failure this botched dip into idealistic colonialism has been, and how it has hurt our cause of trying to combat Islamic extremism.

I left here with Joe Wilson nearly 15 years ago, but because the son lacked the wisdom of the father, I am back in this demeaned and bitter city witnessing the greatest foreign debacle of a lifetime.

how can it be that this president is still in office...? how can it be that cheney is still in office...? how can it be that rumsfeld is still at his post...?

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