The Ever-Suspicious lover

The Neo-con inner circle that was the driving force behind the Iraq war is a lot like a jealous and suspicious girlfriend. In that I mean the girlfriend is constantly checking up on her boyfriend, wondering where he's at, who he's with, if he's thinking about doing something harmful to her. In the end however she is just crazed with jealousy because she is cheating herself. She is sitting at home scheming to do bad things, and because she is, she thinks her partner must be gettin his freak on too.

In this analogy of course, cheating actually means accumulating stockpiles of weapons or violating human rights or plotting to increase your never-ending power and force your views of what is right on everybody else. We have accused the regimes we deem enemies of doing this since the dawn of the Cold War era. The soviets were our mortal enemies and were constantly plotting to get us like Boris and Natasha plotting to get 'Squirrel and moose'. Of course this proved to be silly. While their desire was equivalent to ours, their abilities were grossly over estimated to the detriment of our own international involvement.

In the last decade or so the inner-circle of the Cheney-Bush group that lead us to war in Iraq was the group looking for enemies. They were a group that traded weapons with angry Islamists in the middle east, lead death squads in Central America, gave money to fascist dictators in South America, ignored or aided brutal dictators in Africa and oh yeah, weren't exactly doing good things for the home economy or human rights. I can only conclude that they, like the jealous girlfriend, assumed that if they were doing such absurd things, someone else must be doing them too. And so the great dangerous enemy in the Middle East grew.

However as clumsily as a jealous lover, these Neo-cons did not think things threw and approach their boyfriend's infidelities with proof. Instead they accumulated as much circumstantial rushed 'evidence' as they could and tailed them to an address they found in a cryptic e-mail.

If it is not clear enough, Neo-cons looked in convenient places for intelligence reports and unreliable sources, all with the preconceived idea that Iraq had WMDs and was going to use them at any moment. In reality we were the ones whose attack was imminent.

Hopefully the American people will look at these jealous lovers with a bit more skepticism the next time they tell us their boyfriend is cheating.