Iraq War more valuable to Bush as a club to bash Dems than war strategy

[kpete]

All along, the Iraq War was more valuable to the Bush Regime as a club with which to bash Democrats than as a strategy for whatever it was the invasion was supposed to accomplish. Indeed, in 2002 I sincerely believed the saber-rattling was only about the 2002 midterms -- I mean, actually invading Iraq made no bleeping sense -- and assumed the Bushies would settle down as soon as the votes were counted. Back then I still thought there must be some kind of logic behind Bush policies other than the Glorification of Dear Leader and the Expansion of His Power. Boy, was I naive.

a snippet from:
Gassing Our Own People by Barbara O'Brien
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/06/gassing-our-own-people.html

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1. Doesn't mean it won't backfire (or that it hasn't already)

just sayin', the invasion/occupation ain't exaclty got middle America cheering these days...