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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      12. To say it was an "idee fixe" is circular: they wanted to invade Iraq because they wanted to invade Iraq. Doesn't explain much.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      13. But "idee fixe" does get at obsessive nature of Iraq project. Let's step back and ask WHY it became an "idee fixe."

      3 replies 3 retweets 7 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      14. 1991: USA victorious over Saddam, but dictator still in power, still defiant. This stuck in the craw of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      15. Norman Podhoretz described 1st Iraq war as coitus interruptus: it was unfinished business (sorry for glimpse of Podhoretz's idea of sex)

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      16. Sense of "coitus interruptus" became more intense when Bush Sr. lost in 1992. Meant unfinished business had to be deferred ever longer

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      17. Need to complete unfinished business explains PNAC & idee fix but doesn't quite get to why Iraq seen as necessary post 9/11.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      18. To speculate: one problem USA had after 9/11 was that Bin Laden & Al-Qaeda weren't "big enough" enemies.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      19. A big power needs a big enemy. Pace Romney, ridiculous for Holyfield to fight a 98-pound weakling, he needs to fight another champ

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      20. You don't match up Sherlock Holmes against a pickpocket: he needs a commensurate foe, a Professor Moriarty.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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      21. Military-Industrial Complex experienced 9/11 as a humiliation. They needed to flex muscle, to prove they can still push people around.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015

      22. To have the world's largest military fight off a rag-tag conspiratorial group like Al-Qaeda wouldn't solve humiliation problem.

      9:49 PM - 19 May 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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          23: So: Iraq was already an idee fixe and all the more convenient because it would be a showcase for USA military might, not shadow war.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 May 2015
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          24. Further, defeating Saddam would (they thought) cow larger Arab world. In immortal words of Tom Friedman, message was "suck on this"

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        2. Michael Cohen‏ @speechboy71 19 May 2015
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          @heerjeet It's a mistake to think there's a single explanation for war - Cheney, Rumsfeld, W, Wolfowitz all had different motivations

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        3. No war but the class war!‏ @ggatin 19 May 2015
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          @speechboy71 @HeerJeet They all made a shit load of money for themselves and their cronies while cloaking themselves in the flag.

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        1. City of Van Nuys‏ @CityofVanNuys 19 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet do you suppose GWB understood? I imagine his VP and Rums probably said it out loud

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        1. GordPerks‏Verified account @gordperks 19 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet Or they could have wanted to deepen racial hatred.

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        1. Mike Di Gregorio‏ @mike_digs 19 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet read Cheney's Westpoint speech: "enemy hit us, and hit us hard".

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        1. Jim Hassinger‏ @Swift818 19 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet Conservative economics, when applied, produces deflation. War is the only social spending permissible to them.

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        1. Jim Hassinger‏ @Swift818 19 May 2015
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          @HeerJeet "War is the Health of the State." Randolph Bourne.

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