What I Got Right About The Iraq War
By Dick Cheney
On the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, its important for us as a nation to reflect on that conflict and its consequences. As the vice president of the United States in 2003, I was one of the architects of the project to go after Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. Today, I believe its important to offer an honest assessment of my role in the Iraq War. Looking back on it now, I have to say that, wow, I mostly got it right.
Seriously, the Iraq War went basically as well as I could have hoped.
We in the Bush administration justified the war on the basis of destroying Saddams WMDs and bringing democracy to the Iraqi people. Twenty years later, we know that Saddam didnt have any WMDs, and that the United States left Iraq in the throes of poverty and violence. Critics then and now have suggested that we deliberately misrepresented intelligence, and that spreading democracy was merely a fig leaf for our true goal of maintaining U.S. political and economic dominance over the world.
To that, I say, no shit. Duh. Of course we were lying. Of course we only went in to maintain American hegemony. That was the whole plan all along.
Christ, what country do you think we are?
https://www.theonion.com/what-i-got-right-about-the-iraq-war-1850249194
It may be from The Onion, but boy the entire piece does hit home...