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Is that, as another poster noted, probably less than 5% of the American population will ever have any real grasp of any of this. From the machinations leading to the "war vote," the fraud at the UN, and whatever else on the laundry list over the years, the vast majority of Americans really have no objective idea what's going on. The factual details have all been consigned to the realm of subjective interpretation.
Sober, comprehensive analysis of Iraq, or anything else for that matter, is thus a fringe pursuit, abandoned by the MSM. The facts only get in the way of the much more easily comprehended and emotionally satisfying false narratives being spun out of the White House. We've abandoned truth. Whatever comes to pass in Iraq, the American public will by and large be completely ignorant of the whys and wherefores, and will learn nothing, go forth no wiser.
(I wish I could say this is new, but when one thinks about the mythology of American history, you'll find most Americans are happy to embrace the sanitized, manifest-destiny version rather than the ugly truth of attempted genocide. The facts, the details, have never much mattered.)
And naturally, Congress seems unable to divorce itself from these false narratives, and is just as much in their thrall.
