Back in 2001 on September 11 I was watching CBS news with
Dan Rather to catch upon the day’s terrorist attack. One of the guests was
former CIA director James Woolsey who was part of the neoconservative movement
in the United States. Woolsey spent his entire interview talking about how it
was time for the United States to strike Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein even if
he had nothing to do with the Al Qaeda attack. For whatever reason this stuck
in my head as a very odd thing to say. By the end of the year I began to notice
a growing number of reports in the press about the United States considering
Iraq in the new war on terror. I decided then that I would find out why the
Bush administration was going to war. By 2002 I was reading everything I could
read about Iraq and posting long posts on message boards about the coming
conflict. In 2008 I decided I should publish some of these thoughts and started
this blog Musings On Iraq. Since then I have expanded my research to reading
around 45 papers a day, reading all the reports and think tank pieces that come
out about Iraq, networked with dozens of people who are involved in the country,
and done 120 interviews. I would like to thank all those people who have helped
me along the way and all the readers. In 9 years my site has gotten over 5.3
million hits. That wouldn’t be possible without all of you.
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Thanks for your hard work!
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I do every day. Keep it up.
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