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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: unclewest who wrote (132421)5/10/2004 10:41:38 AM
From: Dr. Id  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
To complain about this and whine about that sounds too Kerry like. The fact is those who opposed the war were equally wrong about as many and as many important issues as you think the hawks were. Of course now they have conveniently discarded those old positions and only write opinions about "mistakes", whatever they are.

The war did not go according to plan. It did not go according to the hawk plan and it did not go as prophesied by the left.

First, to whine that the left were "equally wrong' is very simplistic and Bush like. The consequences of the Right-wings being wrong about Iraq are astronomically greater than those miscalculations attributed to the left. I remember those on the left wanting the inspections to continue, as they seemed to be working. That was proven correct, as not a single WMD has been found. That Iraq would erupt in civil war? Still a good possibility. That Saddam would be forced to use his WMD's? Well, that didn't happen because they didn't exist. The left being "wrong" would have left Saddam in power presiding over a weapon-less dictatorship. There are many of those in the world. The Right being wrong has resulted in a quagmire of Vietnam like proportions, with the rest of the world alienated from us and a probable increase in terrorists. Comparing apples and oranges.

And as for why the public saw "little of the ugly" of war? Because the administration that you support tried to insure that no one saw "ugly images" by censoring the media. Can't have it both ways (also Bush-like).

I look forward to your fair and balanced reply! :)
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