--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote:
I certainly don't have an more insight than you do concerning these complex matters Richard. Obama said something early in his presidency that I can only paraphrase but it was something like: the truth is not as bad as the detractors say or as good as the supporters say. I apply that to every political decision I can. > > > > Curtis: > > I don't see a conspiracy. > > > Neither do I - and I've seen no convincing evidence that > would lead me to think that Bush 'lied' about the reasons > to go to war in Iraq. > > Judy and Bhairitu seem to see conspiracies when there > isn't the slightest reason to think that anyone was not > telling the truth as they see it. > > Based on that kind of reasoning, Hillary Clinton and John > Kerry were liars, since they both believed that Saddam had > WMD, so they voted to authorize the president to use force > to depose Saddam from power and to find out if Saddam had > WMD in his possession or not. > > Invading Iraq was the only way to find out *for sure* if > there were any WMD, after Saddam expelled the inspectors. > > If the U.S. had not called Saddam's bluff, he could have > blackmailed everyone and could have taken over the oil > fields of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, and he > could have brought the free world to it's knees. > > > And the groups I hold most accountable are the Democratic > > party and the press who gave Bush a free pass. A man who > > in my opinion should not have been given a free pass key > > to the executive bathroom... > > > Maybe so, but Bush was elected with over a fifty percent > of the U.S. voters AFTER the Iraq invasion. If Al Gore had > won the election, he would have lied about human causes of > global warming, but he probably would have done nothing to > save the lives of the Afghan or Iraq people. > > From what I've read, Saddam was responsible for the death > of over a million people, some who were murdered with the > use of WMD. Was there any reason to think that he wouldn't > use WMD again? > > How many people have to die before someone does something > to stop a dictator from murdering his own people? > > It may have been a mistake to invade Afghanistan and Iraq > and maybe even Kosovo, but what were the alternatives? > > US President Bill Clinton sent U.S. forces into the Balkans > in the Kosovo War in order to put a stop to Serbia's massive > campaign of ethnic cleansing. Thousands of lives were saved > by the use of force against Serbia. > > In my opinion, it would have been a crime against humanity > NOT to put a stop to the genocide in Kosovo. >
