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Originally Posted by onetime2
LOL, yeah "deliberate misinformation" that's it. Because every other administration gives the public ALL the details of what's going on and why or that the government is somehow supposed to tell everything in every instance. The simple fact is that there are plenty of reasons not to come out and say such things. Not the least of which is the fact that it would severely reduce the effectiveness and give the potential targets ammunition to sway world opinion. This is politics people, it's not group therapy where you share all the details and the motivations for your actions.
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The public has a right to know in this society, particularly whenever war is involved. You aren't alleging some secret, damning information that drove the invasion but rather a vague display of power to show the "bad guys" what we're made of. You may accept that as justification but I'd wager that the majority of the country would disagree.
Well, at least we apparently agree on one thing...we did invade Iraq under false pretenses. LOL, indeed. I suppose the the probably fictitious Gulf of Tonkein incident and subsequent war was a good thing in the "political realists" handbook. We had to show the communists, right?