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Saddam being brutal would not have been enough to herd the American public into war, as Bush well knew when he piped-up in a pre-war meeting, his political instincts ever superior to generalship. About the "bringing democracy" selling point for the war he said: "that's not going to get Joe Six-Pack. We need Joe Six-Pack." He needed to create a dire, existential threat linked directly to 9/11, which, in a fit of prep school bravado which prizes audacity and showing the rabble for fools, he once brazenly admitted to Ken Herman of Cox News had "nothing" to do with Saddam. (The NeoCon cheerleaders have been trained to say "Supporting role! Supporting role!" That's not "nothing.")
Back then, the NeoCons released talking points as fast as they could be debunked, but they cannot hold Bush's House of Cards, or Torture House of Horrors, together forever. What about that fuselage at Salman Pak? (Under constant aerial surveillance since 1995, used to train Iraqi commandos against aircraft hijackings, as when Iran hijacked an Iraqi jetliner in 1986 and crashed it.) What about the rotted and useless sarin shells left over from before the first Gulf War? (They found the WMD!) "They sent the WMD to Syria" (Then why aren't we invading Syria?) The logic which holds Bush's conduct of the "war on terror" will hold, and "facts" will be supplied to support it, until Bush's "Joe Six-Pack" sees a different logic.
The logic of fear, torture, a Trillion Dollar War, the newfound riches at Halliburton and KBR, and Joe's empty piggybank. As the stockholders who make campaign contributions to politicians which result in 100,000 and 200,000 percent returns on their political investments now bargain hunt for property and the 401k mutual funds you had to cash-out at rock bottom just to eat, it's time for Joe to realize that money didn't just disappear. Someone took it.
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