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Honestly, yes.
I've said it here before that what we have done is noble. But the way we wen't about doing it was not.
Bush sold this war to us and Congress on the fear that we could be attacked by Saddam within 45 minutes.
If he had just ratcheted up his argument based on Saddam being a mass murderer and torturer of his own people who will leave that legacy for the Iraqi people long after he is gone, through his children, then yeah I could support it.
It would also have helped us build an actual broad coalition of international support as making the case for invasion based on that actually has a provable base. And a prescedent.
If we had achieved a real international coalition this wouldn't have been an american invasion, which would have severely limited the ongoing guerilla attacks against american troops we are seing now, and the cost to the United States would have been minimalized.
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