I was going to write a long post about Iraq, but I'm too tired. This weekend was the third anniversary of the invasion. Hard to believe that much time has gone by. I went to Iraq in May 2003 and it seems since then its gone from bad to worse. I can't imagine going back now, at least not anytime soon.
But I still remain hopeful. Check out this transcript of an interview Iraqi Deputy PM Ahmad Chalabi gave today. He tells a bit of a different tale than what you read about everyday in the papers, and his opinions are to be taken with a lot of seriousness.
The one point I do want to make, which I feel very strongly about, is that I am getting tired of hearing in the media that the aftermath of the war is a failure for neoconservatism. That the hawks who led America into war were wrong, their plan failed, and they are responsible for the mess now ripping that country apart. Nothing could be further from the truth; in fact, it is the exact oppositie. It is precisely because the hawk's plan for post-Saddam Iraq was not adopted that we are in the mess we are in today.
Their plan -- to transfer power to interim government immediately to put an Iraqi face on the invasion -- was discarded by Paul Bremer and his State Department advisors. It is mainly because of the way the first year after the war ended was handled by Bremer et al that we have the dreadful situation of today.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 12:12 AM
