A bad dream:
"There still are plenty of administration officials who daily
paint a rosy picture of the Iraq we have created. But I wonder: If the past
three years were nothing more than a bad dream, and our nation suddenly
awakened, how many would, for national security reasons, urge the same
invasion? Would we instead give a gigantic sigh of relief that it was only a
bad dream, that we need not relive the three-year nightmare of death,
destruction, chaos and stupendous consumption of tax dollars? Conceivably we
would still see oil prices under $30 a barrel, and most importantly, 20,000
severe U.S. casualties would not have occurred. My guess is that 99% of all
Americans would be thankful it was only a bad dream, and would never support
the invasion knowing what we know today" - libertarian U.S. Congressman Ron
Paul (R-Texas), on the floor of Congress, April 5.
Source: Ron Paul's speech "Iran: The Next NeoCon Target":
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