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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cirrus who wrote (96841)	7/14/2011 12:07:54 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Nobody asked for the US in Iraq. To say "an attack is an attack" is a very simplistic way of analysis and that is what the problem is with some of the folks today as epitomised by Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Co. In Libya, Benghazi was encircled and there was a threat of genocide. There was no such thing in Iraq. On the contrary, the UN inspectors on the ground were nearing their investigation on WMDs. It was becoming apparent to the world that Saddam did not have any WMDs. So before the world called the Bush/Cheney lie, we attacked Iraq with boots on the ground, the very thing that we opposed when Saddam sent his boots into another sovereign country, Kuwait in 1992. Furthermore, US intervened in Libya to prevent a massacre. It did not invade Libya with the intention of removing Gadaffi. It is about time we quit simplistic thinking. It is hurting the country big time.