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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (342169)	7/5/2007 3:23:27 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1573435

Why do you tell yourself the above when the facts don't line up with the reality? The CIA and the intelligence community at large let us down big time - their information was wrong and hasn't been right on so many other issues - why they haven't been dismantled is beyond me. It doesn't matter what the intelligence said.....we had inspectors in there checking things out. n we would have let the weapons inspectors finish their job. Do you honestly believe Saddam would have stopped pursuing his goals or was he just trying to wait out the UN? After ten years of war with Iran and ten more years of UN sanctions, Saddam was done. He was more interested in building palaces for himself than waging war. So, yes, I do believe Saddam had stopped pursuing his goals of war. t country had resolutions from the UN dating back years - long before 911 - the UN can't even handle darfur - they are a nearly useless organization. They may be a useless org. in your eyes but they kept Saddam in check. What should bother you the most is how anxious Bush/Cheney wanted to go to war. They were motivated, I believe, by trying to protect the nation but did not plan out the peace. Protect the nation from what? They got approval from the right people (congress, etc) they failed to plan the entire operation. If they had managed to secure the peace they would be hailed as hero's not the goats they are being portrayed as - this is the cost of political failure not to mention the cost to the nation in life and treasure. They got approval from Congress because the GOP controlled Congress and because they sold them a bill of goods. Why didn't you see what they were doing? I did. Others did. We tried to stop it. And you are probably smarter than me. Until people like you who are smart and who care get why you choose people like Bush/Cheney and then go along with their cockamanie schemes, we will forever have an Iraq or Vietnam every 20 years or so. Nations, particularly democratic nations, are never at their best during war. That's why war should be an absolute last resort. This nonsense has got to stop........we are wasting our finite resources on BS.

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