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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Many people including Bush thought Saddam had WMD. There was some evidence suggesting that he did not, and there were some people who believed he did not have WMD. To my knowledge, other than a handful of Iraqis at the time no one knew with certainty. In spite of the WMD question, there were other reasons to use military force to remove Saddam.
I repeat this, because I don't understand why many don't want to accept this, and I find it interesting how in the end the response ends up being something like - well he just lied, and he has you (meaning me) fooled.
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I'm not saying he has you fooled. I'm saying he fooled an awful lot of people and you can't just step over that. The people who believed Saddam had WMD (of whom I was
never one, btw) believed that because Bush and his posse told them so. Intelligence didn't support that claim--in fact, quite the opposite. But Bush claimed it, people bought it, and now we're up to our neck in a war we can't win.
I know you think there were other reasons to justify the war. What I'm curious about is why that belief of yours justifies your brushing aside the lies that Bush used to sell everyone in the country BUT you on this war.
Is it that if the rest of the country were only as smart as you, the lies would have been unnecessary? Why didn't he just say that the war was necessary for whatever reason YOU believe it was necessary? Which is....?
I'm just trying to get inside ace-world here. Because from outside ace-world, it looks like complete raving nonsense. I'm interested to see if there's any actual logic to ace-world on the inside, or if it really is the neocon lock-stepping it appears to be.