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| Why would anyone trust these people? |
One of the more troubling trends to come out the past 15 years is the complete re-writing of the reasons we got involved in the Iraq War. The reasoning behind the war now falls primarily on bad intelligence. Simply if our intelligence hadn't been so wrong about weapons of mass destruction then the Bush administration wouldn't have led us into war. I can forgive someone who wasn't politically aware at the time for believing this, but having been politically aware at the time; I can say that this is complete bullshit.
Part of the chorus of apologists is NY Times columnist David Brooks whom recently wrote an editorial oddly titled
"Learning From Mistakes":
...The first obvious lesson is that we should look at intelligence products
with a more skeptical eye. There’s a fable going around now that the
intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was all cooked by
political pressure, that there was a big political conspiracy to lie us
into war.
