Posted on 12/15/2003 6:37:02 AM PST by Lance Romance
If these people haven't completely sublimated 9-11, they have most certainly refused steadfastly to heed its clear warning.
For me, we don't NEED to prove that Saddam was hooked up with al-Qaeda in some way, or even that he was linked to 9-11.
The lesson of 9-11 for us was not whether or not Saddam was involved, but simply did HE grasp the lesson that was there for him? Did 9-11 show him that he didn't NEED missiles which could reach our shores, didn't he already possess the necessary elements to retaliate with impunity for the humiliation we had heaped on him in 1991?
To say that this war "hasn't made us any safer" would not only have to include the mythical presumption of Bush's lack of intelligence, but in addition draw the idiotic and dangerous conclusion that Saddam Hussein was both dumb AND blind.
As conservatives, it would be all the more despicable for us to use this shameful, and dishonest, technique.
...mildly. Narcissistic is more like it.
These people will believe anything if it makes them feel better and they don't have to face their failures.
Even if it put Americans and Freedom at peril.
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