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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (40574)	8/17/2005 4:00:43 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Yeah, right. Dumbya sent our soldiers to die on a mission and then made fun of the mission. What a cold-hearted monster!

To: jlallen who wrote (40574)	8/17/2005 7:44:53 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Ted Rall writes (all emphases mine) : The most galling aspect of this fiasco is that it was entirely predictable. I know; I predicted it. Here's my column written back in July 2002: "Most experts expect Iraq to disintegrate into civil war after an overthrow of Saddam's oppressive Ba'ath Party," I wrote. "Opinion of the United States is now at an all-time low among Muslims around the world. Going after Iraq will make matters worse. Why give radical anti-American Islamists even more political ammunition with which to recruit suicide bombers and attract the financial donations that fund their assaults?" I'm no genius, but even I could see that this war was doomed eight months before the invasion: "Do the Kurds deserve a homeland? Sure. Would Iraq be better off without Saddam? Probably. But if we're smart, we won't be the ones to blow over this particular house of cards. We have too much to lose and too little to gain in the mess that would certainly ensue."