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Originally posted by lendaddy
Denis, that was special but completely irrelevant to the point at hand. Unless ofcourse you're saying Bush fabricated the evidence which the CIA then regurgetated back to them?????
Anyway, my point is you guys (liberals everywhere) are taking great glee in the lack of WMD's thus far and you are taking this opportunity to attempt an "I told ya so". There is however one problem.........you DIDN'T tell us or anyone else so. You were against the war, yes. But no one save Ritter was saying "there are none, zero, nada WMD's in Iraq". So I ask you why you pretend you did? Don't change the subject, just tell me who it was on your side that told us he was unarmed? If you can't find anyone, that makes you guys just as incompetent as you claim Bush to be right?
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I absolutely assumed that he had some WMDs and I was still 100% opposed to invading Iraq. Hope this clears that up for you.
Even if he had turned out to have had some banned weapons left, it would not change my opinion that invading Iraq was illegal and morally indefensible in 2003. And don't even bother w/ the "violated U.N. resolutions" bull***** unless you also support military action against Israel. And the U.S.
I'm surprised that he didn't have any chem weapons, (after all, we sold him a *****load of them), but he was completely boxed in when we kicked out the inspectors, (who were doing a very thourough and professional job I might add), and militarily invaded them. Talk about violating the wishes of the U.N. and our allies, for fuch's sake Skippy!
The bottom line is that the current administration LIED when they said that they had "bulletproof evidence" of WMDs, (and a lot of other things), they did not. And they manipulated intelligence, tossing out anything that didn't support their pre-ordained theories and justifications. And a lot of Bush supporters just don't care. All because he seems like a good ol' boy(?)
Just to be clear, the current situation has no precedent in our history, no leader has ever lied about evidence to start a war, and/or had a war go this much sideways. It makes Viet Nam look entirely manageable, IMO. What a nightmare. And there is no glee from me, none whatsoever. When the first U.S. troop or Iraqi civilian got blown up, it became a nightmare.
The only possible good that will come out of it is that future generations will not fall for BS like this again, but of course they will. When was the last time that our leaders lied to us like this? Only 30 years ago?
