McGentrix wrote: when did Bush Kill anyone? also, I thought it was common knowledge amongst Bush opponents that he is slighty smarter than a monkey, yet here you claim that he tricked almost every single congress person into believing he was right about needing to invade Iraq.
I wish you guys would make up your minds, is he a smirking chimp, or a brilliant genius?
The original vote, you will recall, was for the power to invade Afghanistan, where the perpetrators of 9/11 were believed to be based. That's what Congress, God help them, thought they were voting for. (I wonder how that vote would go today, now that most of the facts are out?)
Then, the "axis of evil" and "war on terror" rhetoric, and the application of the oft-quoted Hermann Goering principle.
Anyone who did not support our boys was a traitor, criticism of the administration was tantamount to treason, the Europeans were appeasers, etc etc. Authorative voices who would speak up against this while the troops were in action, were few, lamentably so: and right-wing control of the mass media ensures that informed dissent is stifled.
Whip up a lot of fear, feed the xenophobia, tell the waverers that you are bringing democracy and apple pie to the middle east, and there you have it: 50% of the population duped into supporting a criminal. Simple.
