[Featured Image: David Burness / Contact Press Images] In his January 28, 2003 State of the Union address, George W. Bush declared, “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,” quickly dubbed, in press shorthand, “the 16 words.”  Joe Wilson was dumbfounded, he knew it wasn’t true. He told journalist Seymour Hersh, “I gave them months to correct the record. . . but they kept on lying.” Finally, in a July 6, 2003 Op-Ed to the New York Times, “What I Didn’t Find in Africa,” Wilson said that “if his…

[Featured photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye / Getty Images] In my introduction to U.S. Meddling in the Middle East, I said: The 2003 invasion of Iraq unhinged the Middle East, causing misery for millions, creating a power vacuum eagerly filled by Islamic fundamentalists and ratcheting up terrorism beyond our worst nightmares. It will go down as the greatest U.S. foreign policy debacle, bar none – Vietnam is not even a close second – in the history of our republic.  Debacle doesn’t begin to describe it.  Just by the numbers. First, the death toll, both Iraq and Afghanistan: 6,951 U.S. soldiers, almost…