Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Elphaba
Uh, Moose... the entire world was behind us after 9/11 and you could not have found greater unity among our people and our politicians in any other era or war.
I suggest we lost all of our international support and the bipartisan support of the President, when we were drawn into a preemptive war under false pretenses. Blame whomever you wish about whatever you choose to. Nothing is going to be discussed reasonably in this forum if the "debate" continues as this has.
|
No, we lost the "bi-partisan support" because we didn't sit by idly after having been attacked. Prior to going into Iraq, there were massive anti-war demonstrations around the world. If we had sat on our proverbial hands, the world would have stayed with us. We didn't, and pissed off a lot of people who were making a lot of money by taking outright bribes from Saddam Hussein. It's one thing for them to say "we're sorry you got attacked." It's quite another for them to say "We're sorry you got attacked, and we don't care if you piss in our ricebowl." And that's EXACTLY what we did....we took out a guy who was putting large quantities of petrodollars in their pockets illegally.