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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Also rather interesting that many on the left that agreed with the peacekeeping efforts in other areas of the world suddenly found liberation to be an insufficient justification when used by a republican president. But I suppose that's a bit of a tangent.
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I think you miss the point of 'many on the left'. My opinion is not that a war of liberation is a bad thing. My point is that that is not how the administration justified the war. THAT was WMD - back to the thread starter. The shifting justifications for war is what makes me crazy.
If it had been about liberation, there might have been a plan for how to actually do that without destroying the country/infrastructure.
If it had been about liberation, and Iraq were put on a list of other places that need liberation, and prioritized accordingly, I would have been all for it. But it wasn't. It was about WMD, remember?
But no one cares about that now. Somehow the American people have bought the notion of liberation.