Only simple-minded Republicans believe:

* PNAC did not plan the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq long before 9/11
* The US was attacked on 9/11 by people connected to Saddam Hussein
* The Taliban and Al Qaeda have been defeated in Afghanistan
* Afghanistan is now an example of democracy and freedom
* Saddam Hussein was a threat to the freedom of all Americans
* Saddam’s WMD’s are somewhere and they’ll be found
* The US did not arm Saddam in his war with Iran
* The US did not supply Saddam with chemical and biological WMD’s
* Saddam Hussein was poised to attack the US and his neighbors
* There was no time to allow UN inspectors to complete their work
* All nations, especially France, that opposed a preventive attack
on Iraq hate the US
* The coalition that invaded Iraq was composed of major countries,
each contributing arms, troops, and money to the war
* It is legal under International law to invade a sovereign nation
that poses no threat
* The Iraqi people are grateful the US for invading and occupying
their country
* The bombing of Iraq cities caused very few civilian casualties, if any
* The people of Baghdad spontaneously overturned the statue of
Saddam in an expression of joy over being liberated
* Jessica Lynch was mistreated and possibly raped by her captors,
and saved in a dramatic and dangerous Special Ops rescue mission
* The insurgency in Iraq is the work of foreign terrorists who don’t
want Iraqis to be free
* Most of Iraq is back to normal, with people’s lives far better
than before the war
* Ahmed Chalabi deserved the millions of dollars he got from the US
* Halliburton got no-bid contracts in Iraq because they were the
best firm for the job
* Dick Cheney no longer has any connection to Halliburton
* The CIA has no connection to the new head of the temporary Iraqi
government
* Our troops are dying in Iraq in order to save our freedom
* The American people are safer now that we’ve removed Saddam
* The world is safer now that we’ve removed Saddam
* The US doesn’t need to work closely with other nations
* President Bush wanted to have a Department of Homeland Security
* President Bush wanted an investigation into the causes of 9/11
* President Bush wanted an inquiry into the WMD intelligence failure
* President Bush didn’t delay 12 weeks before allowing an
investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame’s secret CIA role
* President Bush didn’t withhold unclassified information from the
public reports of the 9/ll commission
* The abuses in Iraqi and Afghan prisons were the acts of a few
rogue soldiers
* Al Qaeda will be strengthened if there is a change of leadership
in the US