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1) I'm suggesting that perhaps the government is using bullshit terrorist threats that do not exist to continue to scare us into going along with anything they want to do. And so far, it's working beautifully!
2) Iran has a nuclear program. Why didn't we attack them? N. Korea directly threatened us with a nuclear strike. Why didn't we attack them? Saudi Arabia directly funds and trains terrorists, and most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, not Iraqi. Why don't we attack them? If you want to make the argument that we went for Iraq to reduce the threat of terrorism, then our strategy makes no sense. If you're facing 6 enemies who want to kill you, you don't start defending yourself by going after the quadraplegic in the wheelchair. You go for the biggest threat. Saudi is a much bigger terrorism threat than Iraq was.
2.1 - other countries not going in with us. No, if you watched Powell testifying before the U.N, and then watched the comments of the other member nations, you saw that other nations did NOT agree with our assessment of the situation.
2.2 - exit strategy. if you'll recall, Bush et al gave us the impression that we'd rout out Saddam, end terrorism in Iraq, and be done with it. No one, including the soldier, was told they'd be there this long, until we were already there.
3) Bush surrounds himself with yes-men and then believes everything they say, and you're saying he's informed? If you want to be informed, you need to get information from MULTIPLE sources. Surrounding yourself with 10 guys who think exactly like you is NOT the way to be objective about anything, and it's not the way to make informed, intelligent decisions.
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