[quote]pushharder wrote:
<<< My problem with Bush is he wasn’t conservative enough.
I don’t conjecture that he killed people with a hurricane or sacrificed lives over invisible WMDs. I’m smart enough to know that hurricanes can kill people with or without a president’s permission and I’ve seen enough gassed Kurds to know WMDs aren’t invisible.
I responded to the terrorist attack deal precisely because PB brought it up. He directly referenced 9-11 and in the same sentence said Bush “dropped the ball”. If he meant something different he should have structured his statement in a more coherent fashion.
Without trying to dredge up the whole Iraq war legitimacy issue, let me remind you that the Iraq War started in 1990. G.W. Bush didn’t start the war. He finished it. What we saw from '02 to the present is a continuation of that war not an initialization.
We didn’t war with Iraq in this century because of WMDs. We did it because of treaty violations and direct and indirect threats from Hussein. WMDs were part of the picture and yes, part of the justification but they were not WHY we invaded Iraq a second time in the same war.
Please, Veg, don’t you or any other reasonable person distill the Iraq War down to the simplistic view that WMDs were what it is all about. To do so relegates you to receiving a legitimate criticism of having a “one track mind” which you just happen to incidentally loathe in your now ex-president.[/quote]
Brilliantly stated and without room for improvement.