Frontline's, The lost year in Iraq

This week's Frontline program chronicled the year after we invaded Iraq. It placed the blame, for the chaos that followed, nearly entriely on poor Paul Bremer's shoulders. It portrayed Bremer as extremely well intentioned but ignorant of Iraqi culture. Quietly, it also debunked many of the shibboleths the left has been throwing around for the last 3 years. The show made clear that we did not invade Iraq "for the oil." It told of high hopes for instituting a "democracy" in Iraq. It said that the US had felt that the Iraqis, minus, the Baathists, would welcome the US and the chance for self determination. It pointed out that American troops did not want to kill excessive numbers of Iraqis, especially over something as trivial as looting. This type of reporting runs contrary to everything the left has accused the Bush administration of doing. The left still thinks Bush went to Iraq for oil and to kill as many Muslims as possible. Of course we don't need to, because they are so good at doing that themselves and over oil too. I heard an Iraqi banker on NPR this morning saying that he still hopes that the Iraqi people will wake up and stop killing each other.