"Big lie on Iraq comes full circle" by AndreW Greeley

[Scaramouche]

I particularly liked this line:

Why, then, did the United States invade Iraq if the reasons given for the war were so problematic? It would seem that the answer was the same as the reason as for climbing Mt. Everest: Iraq was there.

The thing about mountains being there is why most people go a round them...

Full article: http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel19.html

On edit: I wanted to add this:

''War on terror'' is a metaphor. It is not an actual war, like the World War or the Vietnamese or Korean wars. It is rather a struggle against fanatical Islamic terrorists, exacerbated if not caused by the conflict in Palestine. When one turns a metaphor into a national policy, one not only misunderstands what is going on, one begins to slide toward the big lie. One invades Iraq because one needed a war.