Iraq war: We never should have been there
I remember my initial thoughts about the war:
The earliest reports that night were that it was possible - possible - that our bombs had successfully targeted and killed Saddam Hussein on the night of the initial bombing. God how I prayed that night that was what occurred, with the naive hopes that had that happened, the war would be short and not full-fledged.
Shortly after we marched into Baghdad against surprisingly little resistance and began pulling down those statues of that dictator, I prayed that we would find large piles of weapons of mass destruction. I was heartened when Judith Miller, then of The New York Times, wrote a detailed piece saying that we had begun doing just that. I desperately - desperately - wanted us to find WMD. We know now Miller's reporting was wrong - nobody called her or The New York Times for being too liberal then, by the way - and the oft-stated rationale for the war was discovered to have been inaccurate. That hurt.
That's where my mind was in March 2003. Where was yours?
