The Emerging "Neocon" Alibi on Iraq

[Rank amateur]

Here's a new one. The "Iraq war" actually started in 1968.

when I wrote the essays that go to make up A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq, I was expressing an impatience with those who thought that hostilities had not really "begun" until George W. Bush gave a certain order in the spring of 2003.

Anyone with even a glancing acquaintance with Iraq would have to know that a heavy U.S. involvement in the affairs of that country began no later than 1968, with the role played by the CIA in the coup that ultimately brought Saddam Hussein's wing of the Baath Party to power.

[Billy Ruffian]

It's disgusting when the rats flee a floundering ship with all their goodies securely snug in their jaws.