I know, I goofed,. You are too kind. I am very humbled.
To the first point, what lies do you think that Bush told to get us into Iraq?
At the risk of turning this into a political forum )which i have no desire to do whatsoever), lest's start with WMDs and the airytale that somehow Al Qaida and Saddam had this close working relationship and that iraq was an imminent danger to the U.S. You can comment if you will, but i will leave it at these two beginning facts.
At the risk of turning this into a political forum (which I have no desire to do whatsoever), let's start with WMDs and the fairytale that somehow Al Qaida and Saddam had this close working relationship and that Iraq was an imminent danger to the U.S. You can comment if you will, but I will leave it at these two beginning facts.
Since when do I not comment! :) Suffice it to say that one can say Bush was wrong about WMD's but he did not lie. If he did know there were none, then he was the only one in the civilized world that did. His own CIA said it was a "slam dunk". British intelligence, Israel, and other allied countries all said the same thing. Second, Bush never said then, and doesn't say now that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. I don't recall anyone saying that Al Qaida was organized and in Iraq at the time. There was a report that Iraqi intelligence had met with Al Qaida, and it was clear that they had similar goals in hurting America and Israel. They would have been natural partners.
Third, the imminent danger argument was NEVER used by Bush. It was used by Democrats wishing to twist his words. In President Bush's 2003 State of the Union, his exact words were: "Saddam Hussein’s regime is a grave and gathering danger.". He never said "imminent". He DID say that the nature of the war was preemptive, and we all assess the wisdom of that now.
I am as frustrated with the mistakes made in this war as anyone else, but I don't think it was brought as a result of lies by Bush. He made a judgment that Iraq was on a path to inevitably BECOME an imminent danger, so he decided to act before that happened.