I must say I am fairly shocked not to have seen a plethora of posts here on Monday about the anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq based on assertions the Bush administration and its gang of neoconservative ideologues knew were not true. Nothing on the front page and just a single reference in the community diaries.
It was unusual from the time Daily Kos sprang into life as a blog in May 2002 that a week went by without one or more references to the administration’s drumbeat for invasion. Toward the end of that year right up to the time on March 20 when the invasion began, Iraq was a daily topic of discussion at the site. Besides founder Markos Moulitsas, three other regular bloggers wrote frequently about Iraq and the politics of those pushing for war. One, Steve Gilliard, was particularly eloquent about it. May he rest in peace.
Ultimately, that criminal war—which 36 million people around the world had hoped to deter with street protests—meant the deaths of several hundred thousand Iraqis and 4,799 American and allied military personnel. Brain trauma, burn pits, Abu Ghraib, Blackwater, axis of evil, shock and awe, WMDs, and IEDs became all-too-familiar terms.
