In that speech, he repeatedly says he is against dumb war and then goes on to trash Rove and others on the basis of what they are doing to the middle class. How does he take that personal attack on figures of the Bush administration to justify his assertion that the Iraq war was a “dumb war”?
We’d been waging a continued war with Saddam since 1991. Saddam Hussein repeatedly violated the terms of the peace agreement. Saddam was at war. We took it hot again in 1998. And Bill Clinton said that regardless of who was the next president, they would be left to deal with the issue.
If he is going to make a case, he needs to back it up with facts as to “why” it is a “dumb war” and why the tyranny of Saddam Hussein should have continued and why we should have permitted Saddam to CONTINUE to fund international terrorism (like he was doing in Israel).
Weegee, I was suspicious of that 2002 speech.
I looked at you tube and could only find a short clip about a “dumb war”
the second I found says in a preface,
“The film of that speech has been lost, except for the 13 seconds that follow.”
Suspicious. Especially in the digital age. I wonder if there’s been some revisionism...