Chris Matthews tore into George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, accusing them of putting us on the path to the current Iraq crisis by invading the country in 2003, saying that history will make the US part of whatever happens in Iraq in the future because of those who tied us to this conflict – namely Bush and Cheney.
“I will never understand how a president so limited in his ability or sense of history as George W. Bush, a vice-president as uncharismatic as Dick Cheney, or a band of unelected ideologues could so screw this country to the wall of history as the band that ran things in the early years of this century.
“We were united after 9/11. They were the ones who divided us. They were the ones who divided Iraq into the two warring factions we see today battling for control of Baghdad. They were the ones who went into Iraq and took apart the Iraqi army, the Iraqi government, the Iraqi establishment, and replaced it with a sectarian bunch primarily interested in getting even with their fellow Iraqis.
“Just look at the spectacle of Saddam Hussein being hanged to a jeering of a mob of Shiites engaged in something we should’ve had no part of.
“Sadly, history will make us a part of this whole debacle. The people who took us into Iraq, who tied us into this blood-feud, should cease and desist from ever again even saying the word Iraq.”
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