Just goes to show that if you buy into the dogma 100%, a lot of stuff is going to be "beyond you".
Well, whatever.
I only know that the war in Iraq was a great approach to eliminating the threat we face of another 9/11 attack.
Five years from now, when Iraq is a booming democracy, and all Arabs can look to us as the people who made it happen, the entire Middle East will see the United States in a positive way. That is clear. All of the information coming out of Iraq clearly shows the Iraqis are already, six months in, adopting this attitude.
Many people do not understand this, and I'll be the first to say that Bush has not done an adequate job of conveying this fact to the public. Nevertheless, people of reasonable intellect ought to be able to see it. It is fairly obvious.
It is essential to recognize that Saddam was an aggressor and would have continued for years to come. When he was gone, we had his sons to deal with. We went over in the Gulf War and ejected him from Kuwait, extracted certain agreements from him, and left. A few years later (substantially at the fault of Clinton, but still) he is behaving badly again, refusing to comply with those agreements. We can't just keep running over there every few years to straighten him out. Get rid of him. That was the correct course of action and history will obviously remember it as such.
In addition, the human rights violations and outright murders of Iraqis rates with the actions of other evil dictators.
Why you guys continue to defend Saddam is what is REALLY "beyond me". If you want to talk about buying into the dogma, take a look at yourself. |
