History Behind the Iraq War

Mudville Gazette has compiled an extensive timeline leading up the Iraq War. It reminds us that the Iraq war was not inspired by 9/11. It had been building throughout the 90's. September 11th only served to teach us that we cannot take the risk of containing these threats.

"One of the most blatant - and most effective - examples has been the highly successful propagation of the idea that the war in Iraq began as a misguided result of the terrorist attacks on the US on September 11th 2001. To achieve this feat of near-universal denial requires the dismissing of over a decade of real history - years in which a handful of Americans drew a line in the sand on distant shores - a line crossed repeatedly and re-drawn too frequently by too many hands to be forgotten so swiftly."