To: tejek who wrote (404685 ) 8/6/2008 1:39:59 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (2) | Respond to My opinion on war and peace and Presidents:I've been waiting for an opportunity to post this. Its one thing to question whether some of these decisions of war and peace were warranted or not. But I think it's a very grevious error to claim that any of these men went to war or waged war with evil, ulterior, or malicious motives or goals. Or even that they made the decision lightly or without getting what they believed was the best advice they could. We've seen that Presidents visibly age during the time they're in office and there's little doubt to me that the weight of the hard decisions they have to make have something to do with that. I think it really poisons the national debate to make accusations of ill will and intent. Those poisonous accusations tend to be made mostly against conservative Presidents. But not entirely. While JFK was killed before the antiwar movement got started, LBJ certainly wasn't spared unfair attack. I recall also the leftwing accusations the US was deliberately killing 50,000 Iraqi children a year during the 1980's. We've seen the Hollywood left make a series of crappy movies about the Iraq and Afghan wars, but even during the Clinton administration they made at least one similar movie (Wag the Dog) over the Balkan intervention. These accusations against the current President have reached the level of obscenity and its time for people who continue this to be shunned by civilized people imo.
