re: #1092 Racer X

I don’t recall that ever being a selling point. I do recall the Bush administration telling us how bad it was going to be.

I remember something like 40,000 body bags were ordered for American troops, and I thought ‘holy crap this is going to be bad. This is not worth the price.’ And I wrote Bush a letter asking him to NOT go into this war with Iraq.

He did not listen to me.

I recall it being a selling point. It was going to be fabulous, and easy, and it wouldn’t cost a thing, and Saddam was gonna kill us all if we didn’t. That’s what we got from the administration.

I do recall a lot of dark doom and gloom about the Republican Guard before the FIRST Gulf War, but they turned out to be, well, less than amazing.