Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette has compiled a must-read History of a Long War (Iraq, 1990-2003). He added these comments in an e-mail:

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I’ve been in the military since 1985, and one thing that truly gets me is the willful forgetting of the entire history of the 1990s – a requirement to uphold the idea that the Iraq war was a result of Bush misusing intel in the wake of 9/11. I know too well what those years were really like.

He’ll be continuing to add to the post and hopes “this will serve as a useful resource to the blogosphere. It would also embarrass the hell out of more than a few folks in Congress – if they were ever to read it.”

Read it, print it, pass it on.

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Related: Go check out an excellent post from Bill Crawford on Operation Clean Sweep and Operation Steel Curtain. Bill writes: “This would be a huge news story if the MSM cared about reporting the facts from Iraq.”

And Sister Toldjah’s on the same wavelength in this thorough overview from earlier this month.