LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

[ergo sum]

At War
The Day I Realized I Would Never Find Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq



My comment was as much about the absurdity of the whole situation as it was about the prisoner’s innocence. I had risked the lives of a dozen soldiers to be there — only to find a small-scale confirmation of the ludicrous false premises under which we had invaded and occupied Iraq. The Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were no more than a bit of improvised sham, a con man’s counterfeit goods. In the process I had stumbled into one of the darkest places in wartime Iraq and into the most revealing truth of the conflict: Nobody belonged there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/magazine/iraq-weapons-mass-destruction.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage