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Originally posted by Centurion
1)You immediately shift to other people when you can't defend the Kerry quote. We are talking about Kerry here..not Madeline or Clinton as far as becomming the next President.
2) and in every quote, the emphasis was on PREVENTION of the development of nuclear weapons etc..which WAS successful. Hussein even destroyed the weapons he had way before we invaded.
The containment policy was working. There was no Al Qaeda connections in Iraq because Bin Laden & co hated the secular state that Saddam ruled and Saddam, for all his craziness, thought Bin Laden was a nut. So, I still don't see how our invasion of Iraq made the world any safer against terrorism.
Don't tell me to look at the bigger picture..that's a total copout.
When buildings are attacked in NYC, I want specifics..not generalities.
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There is a "bigger picture" and the invasion of Iraq was/is a part of the bigger picture...and always has been and I stated this prior to the invasion of Iraq. The Administration used WMD's/WMD materials to beat the drums of war because our 14 Intel agencies...as well as British...Israeli...French and German Intel all concurred that Iraq possessed and/or were trying to acquire WMD's/WMD materials. The Administration had every reason to believe the Intel that was provided to them. The members of the House and Senate Intel Committees all received the same intel that was provided to the Administration and all of them to a man/woman...Democrat and Republican...voted to give the President the power to use our military as he "deems necessary". The invasion of Iraq was only in part about WMD's/WMD materials...down the list from the primary reasons for the invasion. You choose not to accept a "bigger picture"...but on the other hand with your lack of comprehension...you could not possibly understand a "bigger picture" anyhow.