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Originally posted by lendaddy
Would also like to add. Those against going to war in the first place were not arguing the absence of WMD's, they argued Saddam would not use them, or that they were contained, or that we had no moral authority to attack based on the simple "presence of WMD's, etc.... Fine, these are debatable positions. But to pretend "any idiot should have known he didn't have WMD's" as if it were your initial position against the war is laughable.
Now that it appears he may not have had them you guys jump on with the 8 year old tactic of "nanner nanner nanner, you were wrong, nanner nanner nanner"
I guess "grow up" is my reply.
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Len, I think you are romanticizing the past. I am not sure if I have any magical powers, but I never believed he had WMDs. the 20 or so people from Belgium, France, Switzerland, Kentucky, Spain, and Germany I hiked with through New Zealand just before the war didn't believe he hasd WMDs. Many in the CIA didn't believe he had WMDs. The number of worldwide citizens who ddidn't think he had WMDs is staggeringly large.
As a news junky, the one thing that struck me as I watched Fox, CNN and Meet the Press, was how contrived the story was. None of it seemed real or credible, but it was well-positioned. But it was scary. We had to act. the weapons inspectors were doing their job. Certainly you agree that as long as weapons inspectors are in the country, if even he had WMDs, he couldn't use them. He was contained.
Which would you rather pay for: next 20+ years of inspectors or the current war?
Please accept that this whole thing was first contrived and then bungled to the nth degree, as it continues to do so today. Our country is lesser for it. We've talked about the moral high ground in other threads. It's a ghost. No one has it. Yes, I believe we've lost close to 1400 soldiers and wounded and maimed over 10,000 others for nothing.
When Iraq goes into civil war, or elects a government based on religion, who will you blame? What will you say to those soldiers' families?
and even if we had incontrovertible evidence of WMDs, which we did not, we still rushed. We didn't build a real coalition. We didn't arm our soldiers well, we had to pass legislation after the fact to do that, the same legislation that was pork-barreled to no end. and still well over 2 years later we still haven't done right by all of them.
I don't know, I just picture every right winger in this country grabbing his ankles every time Bush/Cheney/Rove says anything.
You deserve better.