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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Huh?
How can it be a justification for the war if it wasn't used until later?
Maybe I'm missing something.
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The administration isn't the only group of people able to attempt a justification for the war. I knew of quite a few that supported the war right from the start primarily because they wanted the Iraqi people liberated. (As an aside, some of these few still didn't vote for Bush in either '00 or '04 due to the domestic situation.) It didn't seem to bother them too badly that the administration might be waging the war on false pretenses, or based on shaky intel, or secretly for oil.
Why? Because in their minds, there was sufficient justification for the war. Even if the administration wasn't using it in making its case to the public.
A good thing done for the wrong reason is still a good thing done. It's petty and a sign of warped priorities to stop a good deed because you aren't fond of the doer.
(This is not to say that it's undebateable that the Iraq war was a good deed.)