"Sad that our PM blew it big in 2003 with his support for the illegal war waged on Iraq."
"(and no right to bear arms, thank God)"
Why? I was and am against the War On Iraq, never made a secret about it. That does not make me a leftie at all, nor do I think that FR should only be crowded by yes-men and all kinds of mutual admiration societies. That is the privilege of tyrannical countries, like North-Korea.
I have respect for GWB because he accepted the fact that intelligence on Iraq had been wrong, or at best, incomplete. I don’t want to go over the material all over again, mind. But any sane person knew before the beginning of the invasion that there were, um, suspect specimens of proof delivered for those WMDs. Which swept away the grounds for a legitimate war.
That is my consistent viewpoint, and I have enormous compassion and respect for the 4000+ U.S. troops that got KIA. That, folks, should not have happened, and it was not necessary.
I would find myself a weak idiot if I suddenly changed my viewpoints for wanting to be liked a bit more here. And if a site named Free Republic wouldn’t accept a reasonably voiced form of dissent, than that site wouldn’t deserve its own name.