From The Beginning
I know it's not fashionable to criticize the war in Iraq in the middle of a presidential election. I know there is no room for politics on the battlefield. But war somehow manifest itself in the body politic. And this is how it should be. The most important decision a country makes, is the decision to send it's sons and daughter's in harms way.
So I believe everybody should contribute to the debate. We all pay the price, so to speak, so we should all make the decision. And this idea that once we start something, all debate should cease makes no sense. If we started something by debating its merits, it stands to reason that we should conduct the policy under those same constraints. Having said that, yes, of course I support our troops 100%. This is one of the biggest lies perpetrated in this campaign- the idea that if you don't support the administration, you don't support the troops. Sickening!
But pointing out that the reasons for war as stated by the administration in the beginning were all wrong, makes you no less a patriot. On the contrary, I think the patriot wants his country to be RIGHT about it's stated reasons for war. We should want the country to be RIGHT about who we are fighting in the war on terror.
I never believed that the case was made to go into Iraq at the time we did. And now, after the fact, we see why the case wasn't made. No weapons of mass destruction and no connection to 9/11. Lies lies lies.
It makes me sick. And a lot of people, ( a majority according to the latest polls) feel safer with this administration. They don't mind the lies. Or they refuse to acknowledge them. Or they are scared. Or they just don't care.
So I believe everybody should contribute to the debate. We all pay the price, so to speak, so we should all make the decision. And this idea that once we start something, all debate should cease makes no sense. If we started something by debating its merits, it stands to reason that we should conduct the policy under those same constraints. Having said that, yes, of course I support our troops 100%. This is one of the biggest lies perpetrated in this campaign- the idea that if you don't support the administration, you don't support the troops. Sickening!
But pointing out that the reasons for war as stated by the administration in the beginning were all wrong, makes you no less a patriot. On the contrary, I think the patriot wants his country to be RIGHT about it's stated reasons for war. We should want the country to be RIGHT about who we are fighting in the war on terror.
I never believed that the case was made to go into Iraq at the time we did. And now, after the fact, we see why the case wasn't made. No weapons of mass destruction and no connection to 9/11. Lies lies lies.
It makes me sick. And a lot of people, ( a majority according to the latest polls) feel safer with this administration. They don't mind the lies. Or they refuse to acknowledge them. Or they are scared. Or they just don't care.
posted by RBP at 3:29 AM
2 Comments:
Ala71-The WMD have been moved! Moved? They just moved them? Where? I guess we'll never know. Bush himself has said the weapons are not there. You bring up the history of the Middle East and guys with their hands cut off, and several other maybe's. And I have to tell you, I agree with your points. But the point is, none of those points were brought up initially. We were not told that we should invade Iraq because of the mass graves or the cutting off of the hands. We were lied to. We were told that Saddam was a threat. We were led to believe that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. These are lies. Lies lies....
What exactly is the Kerry Kool-aide.
There is a disconnect between what Bush said before and what he said after the invasion. And whatever the five reasons for going to war were, they are not brought up now as justification for war. What we are told now, is the world is a better place without Saddam. Well, who disputes that? The world would be a better place without Kim Jong II in North Korea, but are we going to invade that country and install a democracy? Are we going to install a democracy in Saudi Arabia? I'm sure Bandar Bush would take umbrage with that.
What about the genocide in the Sudan? Are we going to make a better world there?
We were lied to. Five times? Like that famous saying here in Tennessee, and down in Texas too- "fool me once, shame on...me...fool me twice...uh, won't get fooled again!"
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