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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
Let's try that again by removing the word "stupid".
Here's the report.
Here's the closed thread.
Now -
As you can read in the report, most people of both camps believe that we should not have invaded Iraq if Iraq had no WMDs or strong connections to Al Qaeda. And as it turns out, most Bush supporters support the invasion of Iraq. And as it turns out, Iraq had no WMDs or significant methods of obtaining them and no strong connections to Al Qaeda.
But most Bush supporters do not believe the reality.
Are they intentionally ignorant - meaning, they know that the reality differs from their belief in some way, but they are not going to adjust their belief to match reality ... or are they lacking in the mental capability to recognize that their belief differs from reality?
And I would note that, although this is unflattering to Bush supporters who do not believe in reality, that is no excuse to consider it trolling.
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Supporting it is different that realizing what we know now.
Just because many Republicans still support the war, doesnt mean they dont aknowledge there are no WMDs ( although to infuse some more imflamitory remarks, did he move them to Syria

). Maybe they supported it for the same reasons John Kerry was pimping it in 2003- because he has the potential to make them, or the intent to, or because he was a brutal dictator, and We'd rather draw the Islamic terrorists into Iraq and kill them there, than over here ( ie Honeypot)
Your arugment assumes the only reason Republicans believe we should have gone to war was simply for WMDs.