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“With the might of God on our side we will triumph over Iraq. God will watch over our troops and grant us a victory over the threat of Saddam’s army. God will bless us and keep us safe in the coming battle.” GWB - State of the Union Address
“God told me to strike at al Qa’ida and I struck them."
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"And then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did." - GWB - quoted July 1, 2003 issue of Haaretz, one of Israel's leading newspapers
Bush condemned Osama Bin Laden for declaring a Holy Jihad on America and the West, but he does the very same thing in defending his reasons for attacking Afghanistan and Iraq. If God is going to tell us to attack people, maybe He can show us where the WMDs are and maybe He can link Saddam with the al Qaeda. Just a reminder.
Bush's reasons for going to war with Iraq were:
1. Possible connections with al Qaeda
2. WMDs
3. Liberation
We've already seen that 1 and 2 were wrong. If #3 turnes out to be a lie, will that finally convince people this was the wrong war? Nope. Some people are stuck in their dissonsnce. The cognative dissonence pandemic will not be undone by news reports. This may take years and generations to undo.
I don't want to impeach Bush, I just want to remind him that he is responsible for the lives of ever American and the lives of people in countries we invade as well. He is responsible for the 17,000 to 100,000 Iraqi civilian lives lost in the second Gulf War, just as Saddam is responsbile for the million lives he took from his own people when he was in power. As the head of the executive branch and commander in cheif of the armed forces, the ultimate responsibility of the Iraq war is his. Going in to Iraq without a well planned exit strategy and basing the invasion on poor intelligence is his responsibility.
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