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

To: Metacomet who wrote (142377)	3/9/2014 12:49:35 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

As previously pointed out, even the weapons inspectors believed WMDs existed. Every major intelligence agency in the West believed it. You may remember, ours said it was a "slam dunk". To be clear, there were other reasons the Iraq War had to happen. The real mistake of the Bush administration was, on hearing it was a "slam dunk", making the decision to present WMDs as the sole rationale for the war. There were other damned good reasons for the war. In fact, some 42% of Americans still do not believe the Iraq War was a mistake (I am obviously among that 42%). 42% isn't a majority but it isn't zero, either (and in fact is roughly the same proportion who now approve of Barack Obama's presidency). It takes a very long time for politics to evaporate from a war and for unbiased historical accounts to take over. Anything you or I say today is viewed through a political lens. 20, 30 years from now, history will view it through the lens of what the overall outcome was: Is the world a better place as a result of it. I think the answer to that, even with the massive Obama blunder in getting out, is likely to be "Yes".