My reflections on the eve of war with Iraq
Here’s an article I wrote as the U.S. was preparing for war with Iraq. I had intended to build it into a much larger thing, a whole web site with lots of contributions, but I never got around to it. But after I read Jason Kottke’s review of the new DFW book, and in particular, Kottke’s rereading of Wallace’s reflections on 9/11, I thought, hey, someone might like this. So, here it is.
December 9th, 2005 at 5:03 pm
You know, rereading the article, it’s amazing to me to realize how much I’d been sold by the Bush administration’s lies about Iraq. I was sure Iraq had WMDs. Somehow I believed Saddam had some way to harm us, thousands of miles away in New York. I knew how impotent Iraq had been in Gulf War I. Yet somehow I believed that after nearly a decade of blockades and air strikes, Iraq had grown more powerful.
It’s amazing how well propaganda can work.