The 9-11 Culprit
The Washington Post's Michael Kelly is at the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division headquarters in Kuwait and files
this report on preparations for the invasion.
An incidental fact Kelly mentions strikes me as particularly significant:
Maj. Gen. Buford Blount, the division commander, who was told to prepare the division for war with Iraq when he took command a little more than a month after Sept. 11, said: "We are very ready."
A month or so after September 11, 2001, most people were focused on Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, yet General Blount was ordered to prepare for war with Iraq. This is a strong indication that the Bush Administration had reason to believe that the events of September 11 were an attack by Iraq on the United States.
There's much more to America's war on Iraq than just disarming Saddam, ousting a terrorist-sponsoring regime and liberating the Iraqi people. At its core, this war is about avenging the death of over 3,000 Americans--and rightly so.
