Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "It would be one thing if they were criticizing Bush and the Military's policies on how we're CURRENTLY fighting against this insurgency. But they haven't done that.. All they do is try to go back two or three years to try and absolve themselves from any responsibility for being here in the first place, despite the fact they it was their President Clinton and his CIA director that accumulated the intelligence that Bush relied upon."
Long before Bush 43 was elected I was arguing that we should not continue our actions against Iraq. I argued that Iraq would likely slowly follow the trend of other dictatorships (such as Franco's Spain, the USSR or China) and slowly become more democratic over the years, and that we had those years available to wait. But no, on the basis of WMDs that turned out to have already been destroyed, the Republicans, with the assistance of the Democrats, got us involved in an unwinnable war in Iraq.
I'm not blaming the Republicans for this. Like you've said, the Democrats advocated a similar policy. The fact is that the Republicans are going to get blamed because it was a Republican president who finally pulled the damned trigger.
Re: "But they haven't done that.. All they do is try to go back two or three years to try and absolve themselves from any responsibility for being here in the first place, despite the fact they it was their President Clinton and his CIA director that accumulated the intelligence that Bush relied upon."
What do you expect them to do? It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that the Iraq war is the biggest foreign policy mistake of the post Vietnam world. Hey, if Iraq were such a good idea, the Democrats would be trying to take credit for it. The fact that they are not should be a clue to you.
Like I've said before, just because the Democrats think of it doesn't mean it's automatically a great idea.
-- Carl
P.S. It should now be a little more obvious why it is that France didn't want to get involved in an invasion of Iraq. If they'd have gone in, they'd have had these problems that much earlier and that much worse. As it is, the big bombs blew up in Spain and UK. |
