Daily Blague

Thanks to Édouard at Sale Bête, I glanced at Eschaton. Édouard's link was to a cogent entry in which Atrios asked how on earth we're going to get out of Iraq if we don't know why we went in?

I haven't looked at a political blog in ages, and now I see why. I'm impatient with questions to which the answers are clear. It was apparent to me as the march to war was heating up in the first two years of the first Bush Administration that the ongoing regime of Saddam Hussein was simply intolerable to the president (for his own reasons) and to the administration's neoconservative policy wonks (for their own reasons). It's ludicrous to say that the administration led us into war under false pretences, when in fact we allowed ourselves to be led into war on patently flimsy pretexts. No good reason for offing Saddam Hussein was ever put forward. We went to war because we could - something well-known wherever the severely crippled American mainstream media don't control the news.