Read and weep. R. Cohen's column in the W. Post

[bossanov]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7219-2004Feb2.html

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

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And good luck to anyone who wants to know the whole truth in context, because they are going to need it.

 

[Martin]

The decision -- its urgency -- seemed to come out of nowhere.

The thing that still baffles me today. It seems bush and co gave a few speeches and all of a sudden everybody was jumping on the bandwagon of war.

The best explanation I can think of is that lots of people wanted to a see a good old fashioned war/ass kicking (much like the europeans in the summer of 1914, who were very eager indeed to go to war), so they did not bother questioning the administration.