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First, I love the Greenwald columns. Thanks. As someone who lives far from the Beltway, way out in the CT boonies, I and most of my friends knew and talked endlessly about the folly of launching a preemptive strike on a country that had no ties with Al Quaida or with 9/11 long before we went into Iraq. By reading a bit of history, observing the comments of UN weapons inspectors, and paying attention,we knew it was folly weeks and months before Bush launched the first attacks. Now, this isn't because we're so smart. It's because we paid some attention to the Mideast and knew something about the Mideast habit of bluffing. If we out here knew or felt we knew, how come so many U.S. senators and most all Washington-based newspaper correspondents were so willing to leap in with their flags waving? Can't they see the forest for the trees?
