His win was far from a lock, and I feel like it would have been so easy to bomb a building and then have someone claim there was residue of whatever. By late 2004 the war was not popular, for a lot of libs "finding" WMDs would have probably justified the most evil thing the US had done in decades, I'm sure.

I was so sure they would serve up an October surprise. When they didn't it really shook me, like I didn't understand politics at all. Maybe I still don't.

Thoughts?

  • mao_zedonk [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    I don't necessarily disagree, just not really sure how to connect that with my question?

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      We didn't know we could ask for more evidence. In a way that seems alien to think about now it seemed impossible we could be lied to on that scale.

    • D61 [any]
      ·
      2 years ago

      It was such a big lie that it seemed unbelievable to ... just about everybody (but not actually everybody) that it would be so openly attempted.