I'm not "portraying" them at all.
They are what they are by definition.
It was in all the papers and news webs in the summer and fall of 2002, just as I've presented ... until the White House gag order silenced them ... and after the public memory faded ... we invaded.
Like I said, the news media back then ... subsequently confirmed ... by a SSC leak.
But no leak was really necessary.
The reasons were obvious ... just as it was obvious that the social reason of slavery as an abomination wasn't the reason for the Civil War, but the North's inability to compete economically against slave labor was.
Nation-level politics are obvious, especially when oil is involved.
When people remove their ideological blinders, the truth is easy to see.
Sadly, many actually choose to keep their blinders on ... because to remove them would then require the courage to take remedial action ... such as to impeach our President and try him for crimes against humanity ... and the fear of what that would entail makes cowards of many.