Obama Doomed To Repeat Bush's Biggest Mistake

Obviously there are any number of policy moves made by the Bush administration that are subject to criticism. However, one mistake in particular will stand out above the rest in history. Over time the causes of the Iraq War will fade and history will focus on the events that occurred after the invasion. As an example, how many of you can tell me the when the Vietnam War started, how it started or the events that occurred during the 10 years prior to escalation?

Am I the only person alive who remembers Russian President Putin calling George Bush and warning him that Iraq was hell bent on attack the US and was working feverishly to get a nuclear capability? Not to mention that EVERY intelligence service in the civilized world was telling us that Saddam had WMD and it was just a matter of time until he used them.

I am so tired of the revisionist history that the MSM and the Left are constantly presenting, usually without a dissenting word from the White House or Republicans in general. We knew we were not ready to invade Iraq but the drumbeat that Saddam had WMD and was working to include nuclear weapons in his arsenal.

I am not defending the manner in which we went into Iraq and especially not the debacle that was the aftermath of the invasion, but it was hardly a move on our part based on some mental defect of George Bush that made him want war. No one, except for a few fringe nut cases, was telling us anything different from what Clinton, actually Clintons, had told us.

What a sad state of affairs when after only a couple of years, often less, the MSM and the Left can mount a campaign of disinformation effective enough to completely change the way history is perceived by the masses.

I am truly alarmed by what we are seeing today as we gear up to elect our next President. It is among the mysteries of the ages that a person as ill-suited to run the greatest nation on Earth has gotten as far along in the process as Barrack Obama.

God, and I mean this literally, God help us.

Liberals control the public schools and most private schools. That students going through those schools have ended up with no analytical judgment is no surprise. Instead of paying attention to the world around them they are (1) either playing video games, (2) watching vapid celebrities on TV, or (3) God knows what.

I am reminded of how we rolled over and played dead after the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress. Their whole approach was that no one would fall for lies when they had access to the truth. Remember all the hullabaloo about ‘cutting’ various programs, even though more money was being spent on every such program than in the previous budget.

You would tune in a TV talk show and the liberal would start by making at least a half-a-dozen statements that were absolutely, patently untrue. Lies pure and simple, and the conservative guest wouldn't be able to respond to more than one or two of them when the liberal would deliver another broadside of lies. It was, and is, so very frustrating.

I don't know the answer, and I'm beginning to wonder if there is an answer. Every system that fails give lots of warning signs that trouble is on the way, but if those signs are ignored long enough then the system reaches a point that nothing can save it. We have nothing but warning signs, they're on every side of us, but we go right along, one side taking advantage of a dumbed-down electorate and the other side insisting on being the good guys.

I am convinced that time is running out.

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