WOW. About 10 minutes ago on Hardball, Mr. Mathews lived up to his shows title. (Perhaps the "Stewart Critique" got to him?) Confronting a book promoting neo con general (Lt. Gen. Michael Delong, RET) Mathews said (paraphrased):
"They were lying sons of bitches then, weren't they? To tell our troops then that they would not be fired upon by improvised explosive devices....These guys told us 'don't worry about these guys'".
Mathew's goes on...
"There motivation was, they wanted to take control of that country as fast as they could. THese characters who were all over the world, like Achmed Chalabi. They didn't want any elections over there. They wanted to grab the country as quick as they could. And you guys said 'OK', 'we trust you', because we didn't expect any opposition. But in fact they WERE SNAKES. Weren't they?"