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Sometimes its better to burn the house down and start over. When its not your neighbors house, and someone across the worlds, you don't step in and try and fix it for them.
Your earlier post regarding Congress' culpability was your mea culpa ...your back tracking....for being called out for placing the blame directly on George W. Bush for the failed intelligence. Congress was absolutely as much to blame, but it wasn't until you were called out for it did you finally acknowledge that "Congress".....you notably left out "Democrats" as part of your partisan slobbering....was equally to blame.
And now you're trying to use that mea culpa as the basis for denying you were duped not once, but twice. Afterall, you just admitted that you relied on an analysis of PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, UNCLASSIFIED documents to forge your blame against Bush and Republicans.
Wrong again, which seems to be a habit with you. Keep posting your little definitions. It doesn't alter the fact that we were lied into Iraq.
And you insist on blaming George W. Bush and Republican's for that so called "lie" and have yet to proclaim that Congressional Democrats were just as responsible.
And you insist on blaming George W. Bush and Republican's for that so called "lie" and have yet to proclaim that Congressional Democrats were just as responsible.
The same information that was cherrypicked by Rumsfeld, Cheney, et.al, and spoonfed to Blair, Congress and the American people. The specter of mushroom clouds over America was a big selling point.
While neither political party is worth much these days, it is laughable to pretend that the president's cronies didn't have a vested interest in starting this war. They cherry-picked the data and duped most of the nation, thus leading us into a completely pointless war that we couldn't afford.
Now, Iraqi continues to descent into chaos, once again proving how pointless this war was. And what do we get from the far right? Attempts to deflect the blame along with nothing but insanely contradicting whining about Obama: he's "weak" for not bombing Iraqi into the dirt, but a "war-monger" for sending troops. It is all just more right-wing hypocrisy and spin - a flat-out refusal to own the mess they created and accept reality. Within a few weeks, I'm sure all the whiners who were somehow both upset about pulling out of Iraqi and upset about sending troops back will be upset about "how much this war is costing," while conveniently ignoring the fact that if Bush and pals hadn't lied to us, this war would have never have started.
so we should have just allowed suddam to continue thumbing his nose at the West while committing crimes against humanity?
He wasn't actually doing so at the time; there was no humanitarian crisis to put a halt to via military invasion. Now more Iraqis are dead, Iraq is a failed state, and those Hussein had killed ten years earlier? Well, they're still dead.
As for thumbing his nose at you, no. I don't think thumbing one's nose at the US is justification for invasion and torture. Iraqi lives are worth more than American egos.
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