12-17-2003, 01:43 PM
I agree with all of you, it is just so great that they have caught Saddam! However, I am one of the "few" who still think that no matter how horrendous he was, he had nothing to do with Sep 11.
Let us put our focus back where it should have been all along: Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. This Iraq business was just an excuse for Bush to go on a personal vendetta and none of the reasons that he listed for us to go to war with Iraq were valid or justified. Remember, his sole reason for going to war with Iraq was WMD and the imminent threat Iraq represented against the US. Now, months after the "official" end of the war and after we have caught that murderer, the only thing we can say to comfort ourselves is that Saddam should have been thrown out because he is a criminal. Yet, that was not the reason why we went to war in the first place. There are still NO WMDs, Iraq never represented an IMMINENT threat to us. I am sure that had Bush mentioned that we were going into Iraq to depose Saddam, very few would have ever agreed to the War.
We should have continued to go after Al-Qaeda to make sure we erradicated it. Iraq could have waited after that!
Again, don't let the celebration of a "good deed" detract you from the fact that Bush lied about Iraq.
Cheers!
Let us put our focus back where it should have been all along: Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. This Iraq business was just an excuse for Bush to go on a personal vendetta and none of the reasons that he listed for us to go to war with Iraq were valid or justified. Remember, his sole reason for going to war with Iraq was WMD and the imminent threat Iraq represented against the US. Now, months after the "official" end of the war and after we have caught that murderer, the only thing we can say to comfort ourselves is that Saddam should have been thrown out because he is a criminal. Yet, that was not the reason why we went to war in the first place. There are still NO WMDs, Iraq never represented an IMMINENT threat to us. I am sure that had Bush mentioned that we were going into Iraq to depose Saddam, very few would have ever agreed to the War.
We should have continued to go after Al-Qaeda to make sure we erradicated it. Iraq could have waited after that!
Again, don't let the celebration of a "good deed" detract you from the fact that Bush lied about Iraq.
Cheers!