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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elroy who wrote (258797)11/7/2005 3:51:50 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (2) of 1583524
 
Saddam needed to be forcibly inspected and disarmed, then preferably removed, as was being done properly before Bush invaded. We should have waited to let the UN inspectors finish their jobs. Then moved to the next step in a thorough, patient manner. Then we would have had the whole world behind us.

Removing Saddam a good idea? Sure. Just make sure you have someone to move in to replace him first. Bush invaded with almost no post-invasion plan. Remember when Cheney predicted it would be all over within weeks? And Bush's Mission Accomplished PR stunt?

The real issue here was not removing Saddam, but the sheer incompetence and dishonesty associated with Bush's rush to war.

Also, it was odious the way Bush-Rove used the trumped up threat of Saddam as a political weapon to smear any opponents as "traitors" and to swipe the 2002 mid-terms which removed subpoena powers to investigate criminal activities by the administration. And they counted on moderate types like you thinking "it's a good thing we removed Saddam" to justify and cover up the rest of their corrupt and inept actions.

It was mostly about money though, the continued energy gouging, the big pro-corporate policies and the attacks on environmental protection. Pigs at the trough. Biggest looters of the US treasury in our history.
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