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Matthew, you have a wonderful ability to respond to a post without responding to a post. Do you by any chance know what host was trying to say? Or do you fit neatly into the "happy to go along with 3 year old false information" gang? You know there is always a way out of that gang (besides being jumped out), is sitting down and looking at the facts with an open mind. If there were links with al Qaeda and WMDs, Bushco would still be singing their songs about the original reason to go to war with Iraq. Just like Waco, the story changed. Waco, to refresh everyone's memory, all started with a subpoena. The subpoena was accompanied by armed DEA agents. After some gunfire, and essentially a DEA loss, the name of the game went from subpoena for illegal firearms to "we're trying to rescue the children". It was thought by those at the FBI that rescuing children would excuse the execution of those people. It almost worked. The same thing is going on now. The reason that you don't hear about the al Qaeda links and WMDs is because those theories have been disproven. In a desperate effort to justify the invasion, we switched our reasoning from defense, to a moral reason (just like Waco). Now we have an election that seems to be going well, but the blood of Iraqi civilians and rebels, and American soldiers, paid for it. We have seen the American casualty list grow and grow and grow.
Look at the "spreading democracy" reasoning by itself. According to Bushco presently, we went into Iraq to get Saddam (who was not a direct threat to the US) and to free the Iraqi people. That's swell, and I'm all for liberating people from dictators, but what makes Iraq so special? Why in God's name didn't we go into Africa to help out the civilians who are being massacred? We would have saved so many more lives and we could have brought some shred of peace to an area of the world that is just as violent, if not more violent, than the Middle East. You know, the drug lords in Africa can sell arms to terrorists just as much as anyone else. I think that it's impossible to say that we went to Iraq simply to free them. There is a reason we picked them.
Now back to reality. The reality of the situation is that Cheny, Bush, Powell, and Rice have all admitted that there was no link between Iraq and 9/11. There were no WMDs found in Iraq. Those reasons are gone now, and no one can hide behind them. It's time for you guys to take a step back and think for yourselves. I know you all can think for yourselves, now is the perfect time.
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