[Romulus]

The WMD casus belli in Iraq was always the fictitious nuclear mushroom cloud that Dick Cheney was using to terrorize Americans. We weren’t stampeded into war because we felt sorry for some Kurds, so come off it.

[Alberta's Child]

As we sit here in 2014 and look back on history, two things stand out as the most important facts to consider in any discussion about U.S. involvement in Iraq (or anywhere else on the planet, for that matter):

1. The Dick Cheney who warned about the consequences of occupying Iraq in 1994 was a hell of a lot smarter than the Dick Cheney who orchestrated the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Dick Cheney who is calling for U.S. military involvement again in 2014.

2. Saddam Hussein was a hell of a lot more effective at dealing with radical Islamic militants in Iraq than George W. Bush was.

[Rembrandt]

You should see a therapist.