This title is in quotation marks not because any of our elected leaders said it – publicly – but because it is the reductio ad absurdum for many public pronouncements about invading Iraq.

(1)   During the long booster campaign for the invasion of Iraq, at no time did administration spokesmen or any prominent media figure enunciate the view that Iraqis are human beings. Consult your memory on this point. Set aside for the moment the ugly “raghead” bigotry lurking behind the neo-con POV on the Middle East. Even setting aside name-calling and obscenities against Muslims, the ...   more »