Stephen Cambone (center) was sworn in the Pentagon’s intelligence chief (2003)
Anyone whose sense of logic is based anywhere near reality realizes that the United States decision to invade Iraq was one of the worst decisions the United States ever made.
This especially so given the decision was based on completely fabricated intelligence reports to secure weapons of mass destruction the architects of the war knew didn’t exist but lied to convince the rest of the world they did exist.
But one of the men at the center of the fabricating the intelligence reports – Donald Rumsfeld’s one-time intelligence chief – says not only was the Iraq war the right decision but it was also “one of the great strategic decisions of the first half of the 21st century, if it proves not to be the greatest.”
His justification is that the Iraq war planted the seeds for the Arab spring as buy invading Iraq the United States sent shock-waves throughout the Middle East that destabilized surrounding governments so allowing the United States to install puppet governments in a way that otherwise would not be possible .... http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com
