Another point.....
RE: the statement in the State of the Union Adderss (SOTUA).....
"I said "As for Bush et al lying, I don't see what their motivation was. Lying would be too transparent a transgression. On the other hand, I can accept that they were hasty and stupidly relied on poor intelligence, or merely the self-conditioned power of wishful thinking.".....
.....Now, I'm not saying it was wrong to go after Saddam, but I am saying, that if you are going to risk antagonizing the vast majority of people on our planet your logic better be damned tight, and ours clearly and embarrassingly wasn't. Furthermore, I still contend that covert action would have been smarter with unequivocally better results."
Sorry, but this one point does not prove your point at all
IMO. You are demanding absolute perfection in an imperfect
world. The preponderance of evidence supports that the war
was legitimate & justifiable.
I do expect partisan politicians, the anti-war & anti-Bush
crowds to play this up for all it's worth & then some. But
is it really anywhere as big as they will try to make it
out to be?
As I already stated, overall there wasn't poor
intelligence & the uranium issue may have been
inappropriate to mention in the SOTUA, but that doesn't
mean it was an inaccurate allegation (it was accurate per
the British). Intelligence gathering is rarely 100% (See a
very relevant article below).
Most of what the Bush Admin alleged has turned out to be
accurate. I've provided you a plethora of factual evidence
about this already. I don't see how this is evidence of
the Bush Admin relying on, "hasty and stupidly relied on
poor intelligence".
We are talking about one single point out of many & it's
not like the war hinged on this point alone (just like the
false assertion that WMD's alone was the ONLY reason to go
to war). Heck, Clinton made a far worse mistake if this is
your criteria (see article blinked below).
IMO, the White House should share blame with the CIA for
allowing the questionable material about the uranium into
the speech. Besides, didn't Hussein already have a
stockpile of the same illegal uranium in violation of UN
sanctions?
Sorry, but you are making a mountain out of a mole hill
here IMO.
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