by CKR
The 27 September issue of the New York Review of Books contains an excellent query by Bob Guldin and response by Thomas Powers. Why did the Bush administration find it so necessary to invade Iraq?
George Will wonders something similar today: What is the US military mission in Iraq?
I saw "No End in Sight" last night. It doesn't answer the questions either, but it's well worth seeing. It makes the arguments well that there was no plan for after the attack and that the Iraqi army didn't need to be disbanded.
George Bush has danced around the explanations like a cat on a hot stove as the credibility of one public justification after another has melted away.
It gets tiresome to keep asking the same question, with no good answers coming forth. Probably, as Powers says, the motivation was a combination of things. But I'd like to know how the arguments went, what the justifications were behind closed doors. And, also as Powers says, we won't know that until one of the participants tells us.