Iraq is it worth it? - Page 2

Sadistic-Savior · #11 (**permalink**) 09-12-2005, 08:18 AM

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Well if you are old enough to remember the weapons scandel that Mr. Reagan and Mr.Bush's daddy had in their term. It was called the Iran contra scandle. How easy the republican party lays blame on democrats when the weapons of mass destruction they have once belonged to us.

JP5's question is valid. Clinton could also have prevented that disaster in New Orleans. Why do you absolve him by villifying Bush?

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listen u genius, what evidence do you have that osama attacked us on 9:11 or that he was behind USS cole attack?

Why are we obligated to be fair to terrorists? Osama had the motive and the resources. He is guilty until we have evidence that he is not.

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Could it be any more obvious that Iraq has not been worth the cost? It's amazing to me that some people in the USA have this instinctive defense mechanism to protect Bush at all costs, as if he's more important than the country!

No, we are taking responsibility for our own actions. Bush made his choices with our consent. Therefore we share in the blame if there is any. We are not defending Bush's decisions...we are defending OUR decisions. Bush was just a proxy.

Hard-Driver · #12 (**permalink**) 09-12-2005, 01:34 PM

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The only question now is if it is a total waste by replacing a non threatening but unfriendly state with another non threatening but unfriendly state. Or worse than a total waste, by creating a hostile state that really is a terrorist threat. Or a best case scenario where it is just simply a waste by creating a friendly state at the cost of the Thousands of lives, billions of dollars and the loss of the USA's reputation.

sputterman · #13 (**permalink**) 09-12-2005, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by I-LOVE-USA";p=&quot

Could it be any more obvious that Iraq has not been worth the cost? It's amazing to me that some people in the USA have this instinctive defense mechanism to protect Bush at all costs, as if he's more important than the country! President Bush took us into Iraq as his top priority in the War on Terror. During this escapade we haven't found any of these WMD. So either the administration did an awful job of identifying the risks, or they have allowed WMD to escape into the hands of terrorists. And now Iraq is a larger terror center than Afghanistan was before 9/11 . . . killing thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians is effectively breeding more terrorists than we are capturing or killing. Also making Iraq the priority has left Osama Bin Laden (the evildoer who actually attacked us on 9/11, in case you forgot - it seems that President Bush has) at large a full FOUR YEARS LATER. Clearly the war in Iraq has made the situation worse and cost us huge sums of money that could have been used on countless other valuable projects - actual disaster preparedness, levee improvement, intelligence, education . . . you name it.

You are wrong about one thing though. "Bush took us into Iraq as his top priority in the War on Terror". Bush and flunkies were talking regime change the minute they were in office, long before 9-11.

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