Jlallen and the other Bush-Cheney loyalists, you said you were waiting for the Kay report on the wmd issue. Had enough from Kay yet, or are you going to keep on, like Cheney, saying, you can never tell, it may be years before anyone can say for absolute sure? Or maybe you just don't care. Maybe it's enough for you to sacrifice American lives to stop those big, bad Iraqi scientists from thinking about wmds?
At least have the courage to admit that the people that made you so sure there were terrible wmds in Iraq that threatened the world WERE DEAD WRONG. That's the first step on the 12 step program. The second step is to question much of the other information they have given us. For instance, maybe that it was "unknowable" that terrorists might use airplanes as missiles? Maybe that the war would cost us very little because it would be paid for with Iraqi oil? Maybe that we would be welcomed with open arms and flowers in post-Saddam Iraq? Maybe that the insurgents there were all foreign guerrillas or Saddam loyalist "dead enders." Maybe that we went there to "save those poor Iraqis," you know, the ones we left without our promised air support when we let Saddam mass murder them from the air after the first Gulf war? Maybe that Saudi Arabia is our "friend." Maybe that we have a "world coalition" of allies in Iraq that aren't there because we bribed them with aid or threatened them with withholding aid? Maybe that the billions we guaranteed to Turkey to assure that they would send "peacekeeping" troops wasn't a total waste of billions and a fiasco when it turned out we hadn't consulted with the puppet government we established in Iraq; you know, the ones that refused to let them in?
Or how about this one, maybe that we won't end up with an "Islamic Republic of Iraq" that is ruled by clerics and unfriendly to the "infidels" in the western world? There's lots to think about, isn't there, once you actually begin to think about it and the doubt creeps in?
I look forward to your typical thoughtful replies. (Grin) |
