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Originally Posted by Seaver
Maybe instead of constantly posting inflammitory posts about those of us who support the war (still), trying to truely understand why we do.
I personally dont care how they justified the war. It's justified in my opinion simply because the good will outnumber the bad. You screaming at us about how there were lies, how he was oil hungry, how whatever else doesnt sway me. Not because I dont believe it, but because I dont care. The Iraqi people will be much better off at the end of this, and I believe they will look on us as we look on FDR doing shady things to attempt to provolk us into war with Germany. Most wont have a problem with it because hindsight grants clarity of vision. I'll let history judge my stance on it, not you.
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Seaver, I'm not going to argue the merits of going to war in Iraq. That's for another thread. You may be right, you may be wrong. It is irrelevant.
Because the point of this story is that Bush and Blair intentionally lied to their respective countries in order to gather enough support to allow them to start a war. Think about that. Two individuals were able to start a war by concocting a series of lies. Is this how our democracy works? That our Presidents get to start any war they want, as long as they can lie successfully at the outset to generate sufficient support?
If Bush had told the truth about Iraq, made a fair case, and then asked the American people and Congress to give him the authority to start this war, then things would be different. If he told the truth, and Americans still decided to support the war, then things would be different.
But that didn't happen. Bush lied to the American public in order to drum up support for a war he desired for other reasons. One individual decided he wanted to go to war, and bamboozled most of the country into supporting him. My God. This is what matters, Seaver.
And yes, I already started an earlier thread on this post:
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