The Downing Street Memo

I know it's restating the obvious by this point, but since our culture is so fond of forgetting and so eager to see reality as a show and facts reduced to opinion, it might behoove us to remember just how foolishly the coalition of the willing and cognitively-challenged got mired in the messy bog of death and corruption called Iraq. The Times of London has recently reported on a leaked memo, which you can read and analyze in its entirety, that essentially proves what the more perceptive among us had figured out long ago, that the American and British governments intentionally sought to deceive their people over the war in Iraq. It was the summer of 2002, and they had already made up their minds. Had you been paying attention and not been among the cretins who believe everything they read and see without subjecting claims to even the mildest critical reflection, you probably would have never taken at face value such unsupported assertions as the existence of Iraq's WMDs, Iraq's masterminding of the 9/11 attacks, or Iraq's being a threat to its neighbors. Now we know with about as much certainty as we're likely to get before the real histories get written years beyond, that the whole thing was indeed built upon a "pack of lies." This was a war pursued for unjust, fallacious reasons, and we will be suffering the consquences for years if not decades. OK, morons, back to your "desparate housewives" reruns and celebrity fantasy cribs.