Well, Ted, you confirmed where you stand
and answered the question without specifically
intending to do so. I'm not surprised.
I am unclear why you act as if this is a big mystery.
What prompted my reference to your arrogance
was language like that above where you reference
guilt and in your prior post where you talk about
"you people". Arrogance oozes from every sentence you
post. It irks me because you act like
I'm some sort of monster because I sometimes
challenge your largely emotion
based rants.
If I think you're a monster, its not because you challenge my "emotion based rants" as you refer to them.
To answer your questions,
here's my bottom line position.
It's a new world after 9/11.
The world has not changed.......terrorist attacks happen vitually everyday all over the world. The only difference with 9/11 is that we were the ones attacked.
I'm no hawk.
I supported the war in the sense
that I support the protection
of this country and American interests.
I support the defense of our country. However, I see the Iraqi war as unnecessary and a considerable waste of lives and money.
If you were honest, you would admit
that numerous folks in the Clinton
administration and plenty of Dem
senators, like Kerry himself, believed
Saddam was a threat and had WMD. So it was
not just the Bush administration.
Given everything said by everyone, over
a long period of time, it seemed the
right thing to do.
If you are honest, you will see that there is a big difference between the position of the Bushes vs the position of the Clintons. The Clintons saw Saddam as a threat but they did not propose that we go to war over it. Understandably.......Saddam was not all that dangerous to us nor an immediate threat to anyone else for that matter. And that's because the sanctions were working.
It took a lot of persuasion on the part of the Bushes and some major manipulation of the facts to get the American people to go along with his war. That's what I take exception to and what has me so angry. I would think most Americans will react that way once they fully understand how we've been duped.
At this point, it doesn't really matter
if we were right or wrong to go in
because we must focus on the situation
we are actually in now and make our best
efforts to handle it properly. In other
words, it's water under the bridge and
we have to focus on rebuilding the
country and getting it into the hands
of the Iraqi people.
That's true but that also means I don't want someone like Bush in the White House.
Everything else is noise and politics.
I object to characterizations of our country
as a terrorist nation, which is a notion
you accept. I don't. That's what I called
you on.
I never once said that........you've interpreted an article that I posted as saying that. And I might out that that's your extrapolation.......in truth, the article never once called the US terrorists.
BTW, just for the record, I post articles that both support my views as well take a very different position from my views.
Good grief, a child on a playground wouldn't be
threatened by my remark, let alone a guy protected
in his ivory tower of opinions by the anonymity
of cyberspace.
You need some perspective...:-)
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