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well, ace, i suppose were i to go about generating adequate consent for it, i could call the war in iraq "my aunt daisy's hat" really.
what you're trying to do is first argue that iraq was a legitimate aspect of the war on "terror"--that is false. finding conservative sources that use the same line of argument doesn't demonstrate anything.
second, you want to diffuse responsibility for the war away from the bush administration. to manage this feat, you resort to all kinds of rhetorical tricks and frankly i can't figure out who you think you're talking to with them. the key to successful use of rhetoric is knowing the audience.
third, you seem to want to make something Important out of the fact that the war has dragged on past the end of the bush people's regime. where the interest in this lay, i have no idea.
the other move is to attempt to make the war into some Collective Undertaking carried out in the name of some imaginary Us. on this point, you seem to be doing little more than stating the inverse of a couple of the previous arguments.
you can't seem to deal with the facts concerning the war in iraq, which have been known for quite some time, so you're dancing around in some strange exercise which i assume carries with it some combination of creative and political and maybe psychological gratification.
all this in the context of a thread the premise of which is patently false and was from its inception.
way to go.
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