You guys have made this all up after failing to find WMD and you know that. And when people dont buy your convoluted logic, they are then unpatriotic or liberals or uninformed and that is an "undeniable fact"!
I'm sorry, but my position on this hasn't changed one bit from the way it was before going to Iraq. I, along with everyone else, believed WMD would be found. But I never thought WMD were the only reason for going to Iraq in the first place.
I thought Saddam should have been taken out in the 90s by Clinton, and have long maintained that Clinton was grossly incompetent as a president for not having done so. And that was my position BEFORE 9/11, just as it is now.
As to other parts of the world, the truth is I don't give a shit about them. American foreign policy should be based on American interests, not those of any other nation.
What's so hard to understand that when you put 150k troops in Iraq and 20k to catch Bin laden, the chance of catching Bin Laden diminishes significantly, even if we ignore the lack of focus and lack of international support as a result of Iraq war.
When bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, where we basically are unable to go anyway, it doesn't matter how many people are looking for him in Afghanistan. He isn't there. When he's found, a small tactical unit of 10 or 20 guys will go after him. We have plenty of people for that.
It is far more important to neuter bin Laden than it is to catch him.
If Obama were to catch bin Laden, what would he do with him? Where will he take him? Have you even thought of that? Eliminating Gitmo is a stupid mistake for that reason if no other.
I noticed you conveniently ignored 2006 election results. And Obama won 'narrowly'? 7% popular vote and 2:1 electrol vote?
No, I didn't ignore it. I just don't think it mattered. 7% popular vote isn't a big win given --
a) that Bush had the "lowest approval rating in history",
b) that we were involved in two unpopular wars,
c) the Rs had a lousy candidate,
d) the Ds had the best orator to run since FDR, and most importantly,
e) the Media were in the tank for the Ds from the outset.
It is astonishing, given those conditions, that it wasn't a landslide. Amazing.
As to the electoral college, you do realize that it is structured as it is to insure that close popular votes deliver a more substantial EV margin, right? |
