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That doesn't make him not guilty. For all your talk of blaming 9/11 on the terrorists you forget the little detail the 9/11 had about Saddam Hussein's regime bearing no relation to Al-Qaida? Did you forget that?
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Bush did not go into Iraq because of a tie to Al-Qaida. Iraq is simply one battle in the war on terrorism. If you think that Saddam was not a terrorist, did you forget about his invasion into Kuwait, or his use of WMD on the Kurds?
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President Bush knew the consequences for going to war in Iraq. He knew there would be a huge insurgency, as is characteristic of an occupied country full of Islamic radicals. To think that he could not have forseen this is naive. Of course there would be an insurgency.
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Well, I am sure that President Bush's advisers brief him on all the ramifications of going into Iraq, but maybe you should write a letter seeking a cabinet position, because you have such insight.
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But he didn't bother with a plan to quell any insurgency, did he? No. The plan was all dandy. We roll into Bagdad, raid a few palaces, find the WMDs we were looking for. What did Bush care at the time about what would happen after the U.S. invaded? That was way off, and if we could have found WMDs nobody would have cared that we had left Iraq in ruins.
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Once again, with your cabinet position you have known that he didn't have a plan for this, you could have told the military leaders that they were overlooking this strategic fact. I guess you already knew what the plan was from your post, so you should have alerted them to this fact. We as of today have not "left Iraq in ruins". The U.S. is building schools, hospitals, the Iraqi economic infrastructure as we speak. The liberal media will never report on this because it is not good for their cause.
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But it didn't turn out that way. There were no WMDs. (Please, these arguments of "We just haven't found them yet" are getting old.) And so, because of that, international opinion went down the toilet, billions of dollars were wasted, an insurgency was validated and started, and now 1000+ soldiers are dead.
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We had no way to 100% sure that Saddam didn't have WMD unless we invaded, or do you not understand that point. Saddam wasn't letting U.N. inspectors in to investigate, so I guess we should have just asked him for his word that he didn't have any WMD? Instead we went in enforced the U.N. resolution that Saddam was in material breech of 13 years and liberated a country.
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You might say that Iraq was a disaster. How could Bush have not forseen this? He probably did, but was too obsessed to actually draw up a real plan.
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Ask the 25 million
FREE people, after they vote for a new President in their new democracy, if it was a disaster. Ask the women and children that are not being tortured everyday, if it was a disaster. What about all the U.N. humanitarian aid that the people of Iraq are now receiving, if it was a disaster.
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Originally Posted by hill0118";p="
I think that actually follows the pattern of many right-wingers. John Kerry can use his stupid new catchphrase to describe it, though I do think it does make a plenty of sense.
"All hat, no cattle."
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Well, I guess another good catchphrase might be:" Kerry....all medal, no honor."