Comment Re:Nurturing accuracy (Score 1) 361
The Iraq war was sold to the American people on the basis that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the US. They were wrong on the short term, there was simply no reason to believe (besides the paranoid fantasies of neoconservatives) that Saddam Hussein was preparing any sort of attack. They were wrong on the long term too, 9 years of war cost us more in lives and treasure than the 9/11 attacks.
There is no reasonable difference of opinion when it comes to the Iraq war. The hawks were simply power hungry, vengeful, and completely uninterested in realistic appraisals of the situation. The anti-war crowd were right then, and they have been proven correct about what a long, painful, and pointless struggle the neocons chose for us.
If you conclude that your opponents are "crazy" or "evil", you *probably* don't understand their time horizon.