Reply #33: Pollack wasn't alone

[Donna Zen]

Holbrooke, Albright, and O'Hanlon also supported the war. It was never about the WMD; they really believed that clearing out the Saddam swamp was a viable idea. I'm not sure how Lee Feinstein (Clinton's top adviser) felt at the time. Basically there was a core of hawkish Dems., mostly coming from the CFR, who agreed with bush. Oh, and this is weird: when I attended a panel discussion at this year's Kos, Steve Clemons (Washington Note) said that at the same time that bush's junta was pushing for war, he, Steve, was receiving calls from those same people, telling him why the plan wouldn't work.

Personally, I understood that Saddam was an asshole who might have some sort of creepy weapons laying around (lots of countries do...the poor man's nukes), however, Iraq was not a threat to the US. And, most importantly, dislodging the fragile stability in the region would begin the "Forever War." Thus, invading Iraq was stupid.

Just because some of these critters talk about foreign policy, unless they can get it right, they are not experts.