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It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years since our illegal invasion of Iraq, which ended up killing 100,000 Iraqi civilians, 4500 American soldiers, and injuring/maiming another 30,000+ American soldiers.

Every time you see an Iraq vet who's disabled, you can think of Steven Hadley, as he's quoted in this story today in the NY Times:

Mr. Hadley told a small group gathered here to dissect the long-term lessons of the Iraq war that it never occurred to him or his boss, President George W. Bush, to ask: "What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the W.M.D. and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?"

Instead, the White House and the intelligence agencies leapt to the conclusion that Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader who had pursued so many weapons of mass destruction in the past, must still be on the same quest.

"It turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked," Mr. Hadley told a discussion organized by the RAND Corporation and Foreign Policy magazine.

How believable is that? Hadley expects us to believe that there were NO analysts at the CIA or Defense Department that didn't articulate this very same hypothesis? Yeah right.

Just as the administration ignored or deep-sixed any intelligence that contradicted their story, just as they pushed this bogus line that we couldn't "let the smoking gun of Saddam's nuclear weapons be a 'mushroom cloud'", this idea that no one thought of Hadley's scenario is laughable.

These men have the blood of tens-of-thousands on their hands. And we'll be paying the multi-trillion dollar bill for decades to come.

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