This is what we sent a thousand soldiers and many Iraqis to their death about?
I guess your view is that the UN is in fact irrelevant then. If you don't back anything up, it's meaningless.
Listen to me, there were NO ongoing WMD programs.
Listen to me, it is a FACT that WMD production capabilities were found. Ones that were a breach on their own. The stockpile of weapons is the only missing piece.
I think you used the quote it to make the case for the propriety of it.
I used the quote because you implied Bush was lying and pushing the CIA. That is obviously not the case. In any case, to jump from that one quote to being the entire justification of the war is a marvelous leap.
Here we have a president who admits in the book that the CIA had no strong proof as late as december 2002, commits the nation to a war that will bring us years of arab hatred, tramples international alliances, makes the US the most disliked nation on the planet, kills thousands, AND, today we know that no better intel was obtained by the CIA, and you think this is a positive image?
None of these conclusions were drawn in the book. You're confusing your opinion with what was presented in the book.
I guess the bottom line is I don't think we should back down in defending the country, and you do. Just like WWII, if you don't nip it in the bud, it comes back to bite you, but now the stakes are too high to justify appeasement.
Brian |
