Spinning like a TARDIS
“…the more I think of it… I don’t think it’s worth fighting for, and I don’t think we can get out, and it’s just the biggest mess.” But stay he did, launching…carpet-bombing of…peasants, subjecting farmers and soldiers alike to the lifetime suffering of [chemical weapons] exposure, and even generating war crimes by the U.S. side, such as the infamous [Abu Ghraib scandal].
Why would [the president expand such a war]? Because, as another advisor cynically warned: “The Republicans are going to make a big political issue out of it” in that year’s election. [the President] agreed. “It’s the only issue they’ve got.”
Bush and Iraq?
Nope. LBJ and Vietnam.
