If we had known.

If we had known this is what would happen to Baghdad, would you have still authorized the war, Mr. President ?

Inferno

Yet he did know. This was not only suspected, but predicted, by the CIA, by many thinking persons who grasped the complexities of invading a country unprovoked, a country only held together by the strength of a dictator for 50 years. Woe the arrogance of men and their guns! Woe upon those who use power to enforce their will! Woe to all humankind for violence begetting violence, for those believers who forget the words of our master. "All who live by the sword die by the sword."