AS IT became clear to many in the US that the Iraq war had been a terrible mistake, a joke began to circulate: the real reason for the attack was that one of the dimmer bulbs in the Bush administration – perhaps George W. himself – had confused Iraq and Iran when searching for weapons of mass destruction. Prankster/actor Sacha Baron Cohen, playing “Ali G”, even suggested the possibility to former US secretary of state James Baker in a television interview.
Fast-forward to the recent web posting of an official history of the US Defense Intelligence Agency. A…
