Sioux, you say: "[Howard] bought into Bush's lies, but so did I. I believed what Bush was putting down to me about WMDs, the connection to 9/11, and I even believed Bush about the nuclear weapons."
Very interesting. I didn't know you had once been duped too.
I found Saddam to be as odious as anyone around. I had believed him to be as despicable as anyone on the planet for years. I was all for the Guld War. I wanted Bush's father to go after him in 1991 and was appalled when Saddam reconsolidated his power after Bush's father let him off the hook.
Weapons of mass destruction? Nuclear weapons? We were so afraid of them, weren't we? That was why sanctions, no fly zones, and inspection processes were set up. Saddam was made into a toothless tiger.
But then came September 11, 2001. Our fears over weapons of mass destruction intensified.
I was disgusted from the start the way Bush manipulated the Twin Towers attack. It probably helped that I thought he was an ass while he was Governor of Texas. Being a devout opponent of the death penalty, I followed his commitment to the death penalty during the late 1990s.
I have been a major opponent of all actions by Bush for many, many years. He is nothing short of a worthless punk and an extremely distinguished American, John Kerry, is getting ready to kick his ass out of the White House.
Bush didn't establish any sort of international consensus to go after Saddam. We did not have the economic stability to engage in such a costly misadventure. Cutting taxes on the top 1% of Americans, putting the cost of the war on VISA, and stretching the national debt beyond human comprehension has been lunacy.
Bush is a total jerk. He criticizes Kerry for planning serious spending programs that benefit all Americans. The only kind of spending in which Bush engages is military spending. The irony is that he doesn't even pay for it. Put it on my VISA.
I was very concerned about Kerry's strange approach to the hideous war in Iraq. It all culminated in his bizarre statement that he would have given Bush authorization to invade Iraq even had he known back then that there were no weapons of mass destruction. But Kerry has a good sense for the public's temperature and only recently have events in Iraq become so bad that Kerry can attack Bush with clarity on that issue. He is now doing so and he is quite eloquent.
I'm quite confident that the man who duped you and many others is getting ready to retire to his palace in Crawford, Texas. There will be no Presidential Library. The ass does not read.
/john |
