Nope, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that Bush used a big sucess by a small, underfunded group of nuts to justify an irrational overreaction that is unbelievably costly, highly irrelevant, and has made us more prone to future attacks. I’m all for going after the actual culprits, but he diverted the attack on the guilty to go after corporate pdrofits and personal vendettas in Iraq.

It’s as though we’d responded to Pearl Harbor by attacking Argentina. It’s the wrong target, it wastes our military resources, and it creates extra enemies for no good reason. If we’d lashed out so blindly in WW2 we would certainly have lost the war.