Foreign Policy has a nice chart, breaking down the war, by the numbers. Remember, ‘we’ll be greeted as liberators’, the ‘war will pay for itself with Iraqi Oil’, and no matter what any pesky Pentagon reports say, Saddam and Al Qaeda were THIS close.
Updated: Harper’s provides the following from the ‘no-one could see this coming file’:
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told … Itis a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are today not far from a disaster.
– T.E. Lawrence, Report to the Sunday Times (London), Aug. 2, 1920.
