I remeber well early discussion saying that "we" should avoid invovling the warlords cos they weere in their own way as much a paort of the problem as the Taliban. Yet, once it was realised you needed boots on the ground, the warlords were on board.
Also, deliberately targeting marginal agricultural water systems was vindictive. You end up catching crap for that. Oh....we did. keep to the Fen Causeway
The important thing was to have a war, any war, and kill somebody. Sun Tzu, it was not. The Fates are kind.
Now, whether it was effective is another matter entirely. Whether it could have been effective is a wholly third issue.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
So you exemplify my point.
Had to attack somebody. Didn't matter who. The Fates are kind.
Further, what they really wanted all along was to attack Saddam Hussein (no, this isn't hindsight, we know that from leaked memos - sufficiently unflattering memos to be pretty sure that the leak wasn't orchestrated), so it seems rather unlikely to me that they'd invent Been Forgotten out of thin air if they were just looking for a scapegoat. Especially since it would risk upsetting their lucrative deals with Been Forgotten's Saudi friends and family.
Now, I'm not doubting the Bush regime's mendacity, but blaming Been Forgotten wasn't in their selfish interest in the first place.
