That’s the thing I suddenly thought about when I heard someone shot Kirk.

The big one, within our memories, is how #43 leveraged 9/11 to help justify his invasion of Iraq. I had coworkers who were sure the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis, when none of them were. I saw Dick Cheney still propagating the "Prague meeting" narrative about Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer, a couple years *after* that story had been discredited by the FBI, Czech intelligence, and by the Iraqi officer in question, who was in US custody.

Remember how many PNAC members were in the #43 regime? Recall that PNAC called for the invasion of Iraq?

from the Google net sifter:

Yes, the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) advocated for the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime and a peaceful, democratic Iraq, a goal that became policy for the George W. Bush administration and informed the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, laying groundwork for the eventual invasion. PNAC members sent a letter to Congress in 1998, arguing that containment would fail and explicitly stating that U.S. policy should aim to remove Saddam Hussein from power

PNAC also said it would take a "Pearl Harbor scale event" to get the mob behind the Iraq project. 9/11 provided that event.

So, let's see what happens in the next couple days. If Trump offers "thoughts and prayers", then turns back to the Venezuela project, folks can breath. If Trump comes out bellowing about "Communists and socialists" (ie, everyone who does not fall in line behind his policies), be careful who you associate with and what you say.

Steve