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Originally Posted by boatin
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.
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See, I don't get that mindset. "The war has a good justification, but it's not the one being used officially. The one being used officially isn't true. Therefore, I'm against the war." That doesn't make sense to me.
That second paragraph I quoted is the first semblance of an explanation for that mindset I've heard. But it's my understanding that liberation WAS an objective from the start, even if it wasn't always a justification in their minds. I imagine that they did have a plan. Perhaps it wasn't the best they could've come up with.