[…] argument that we shouldn't be doing it, and if we do we'll fail, and if we succeed, our leaders were lying, tricking and cahooting with Halliburton?

The Westminster Gazette referred to 'the withering touch of deadhanded departmentalism".

Any Bangkok prostitute can blow smoke rings through her labia minor and be certain of applause and thanks.

That's a minimum of 2,592,000 years ago, assuming we are almost at the end of the Kaliyuga (the worst of four yugas and an age of darkness), and we calculate only up to the end of the Satyayuga, which itself lasted 1,728,000 years, according to Vedic timelore.