General Discussion

But after a few months W and his minions were effectively able to tie 9/11 to Iraq and get people to believe - at least for awhile - that somehow Saddam Hussein was behind the attack or supported it. Saddam really was a pretty terrible character, along with his two terrible sons Don Jr. and Eric (oh, wait, were those their names? I forget), an easy guy to hate and a convenient enemy. Throw in some sketchy claims that he had weapons of mass destruction (I recall a lot of frantic insistence that he was building an atomic bomb; remember the yellowcake hoax?), et voilà! All the justification Cheney and Rumsfeld needed for a big fat helping of Shock-N-Awe™! And it wasn't until American soldiers started coming home in body bags that our lazy, gullible, cheerleading media (and especially fuck you, Judith Miller and NYT) started to wonder WTF was really going on over there.

I think participating in Bibi's war of choice will be a tougher sell. W was popular right after 9/11, as the leader of a country whose innocent civilians were attacked, which made it much easier for him to convince people that going to war with Iraq was necessary. But trump's ratings are under water, and we are still stuck with his tariffs and ICE raids and other destructive fuckery. We still have people in the media like Van Jones (and forget about Fox) who are as happy to fellate him as Tweety ever was, but all that other shit won't go away and is likely to get worse. Expect gas prices to go up, for starters. People notice that sort of thing, and might object to pay more for gas just to make Bibi happy and Trump hard.