This map is both amusing and highly troubling. People who have followed foreign policy decision making in this administration know that the autumn of 2001 is when planning for a war against Iraq really heated up. Given that, and the map, it's painfully obvious that al-Qaeda (the people who'd attacked the United States just months before) had very little to do with our decision to invade Iraq.
Posted by armand at September 25, 2004 01:51 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International AffairsReally good to see the "fourth estate" working hard to bring us any form of news. If we wondered about the consequences of the CBS memogate issue, this is it. Once you lose your credibility, you can't even run legitimate news stories. That's reassuring.
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