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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (729585)	7/29/2013 3:23:22 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572560

>Opposition to a war is no excuse for treason. You've got a pretty loose definition of treason. >His trip to Iraq was reportedly to see the devastating effects of economic sanctions, but that contradicts the left's position that economic sanctions should have continued. Not everyone on the left is of one mind on this. I don't think that the sanctions should have been continued. >All he did was aid and abet the enemy. He chose the wrong side in this conflict, and regardless of whether you thought the Iraq War was worth it or whether Bush misled the public, his actions were completely inexcusable. How did he aid and abet the enemy? If enough people had listened to him, more than half a million dead people would be alive now. I'd say he tried to aid and abet life. He failed. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (729585)	7/29/2013 7:08:30 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572560

At the point where we became aware, the Iraqi sanctions were designed to target the death of innocents and were effectively accomplishing that end, we were bound morally to take a stand against them. I was outspoken in that regard myself. It is nothing short of a criminal sin to target innocents in order to create some secondary harmful effect on your true enemy. I remember supporting the idea that if your enemy is Saddam then that is who your direct target should be. When the regime fell and Saddam was captured, our justification for those operations was complete IMO. Bush was right to declare "mission accomplished." It was so unpopular however, that we got sucked into years of nation building, rather than watch the inevitable civil war between the Sunis and Shiites and all the subgroups of Iraq, which in retrospect leaves me wondering about our role in the entire Middle Eastern revolution.