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Posted at 3:14pm on Mar. 15, 2008 "If you had known then what you know now, would you have invaded Iraq?"
A little old news from Saddam's files
By AcademicElephant
A favorite question of Iraq war opponents is, "If you had known then what you know now, would you have invaded Iraq?" Given all the lies (WMD, links to terrorism) that dogged the lead up to the war, this question generally comes as a brilliant coup de grace in the argument that Iraq has been a brutal, expensive mistake that never should have happened in the first place.
And all too often those who support the war duck this question. The lame, default riposte is that everyone saw the same intelligence and anyway, the fact is that we're in Iraq it doesn't matter why we went--what matters now is winning.
Of course, winning matters very much. But for that victory to be meaningful, I think we need to remember, not avoid, the reasons we went to war in the first place. They may not be as spurious or flawed as many think.
I propose that the answer to "If you had know then what you know now, would you have invaded Iraq?" should be "Yes, and here's why."
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