It is clear that a number of people actually believe in the rhetoric that accompanied the war. But as I ask time and time again for a single hypotheses that was proferred by the administration before the war and PROVEN after the war, I'm met with blank stares. This is troubling to me, because it indicates a type of fervor that cannot be disproven--which places it in the same category as religion. Some of the assertions/hypotheses:
*Saddam had nuclear weapons almost ready
*We would be greeted as liberators
*Victory would be swift
*The total cost shouldn't come even close to 50 billion
*We're going to be in and out
*Democracy should be straightforward to install
*Terrorism will decrease
*THe number of terrorists RECRUITED will decrease