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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
And the people who KNOW are the same who KNEW there was WMDs in Iraq. Seems you lost they debate before it started.
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They avoid it all the time. But some don't:
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The real issue is why did the United States start a "pre-emptive" war with Iraq? How was it that our intelligence was so bad that we became convinced that Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, when they had none?
How could we have believed that this secular tyrant Saddam, a brutal persecutor of religious fundamentalists, could have been a partner of the ultra-fundamentalist Islamists? How did we convince ourselves that there was a connection between the Iraqis and the horrendous attack on 9/11 when there was no shred of evidence that such a connection existed?
How could we have persuaded ourselves that Saddam was an "imminent threat" to the United States, likely to produce a "mushroom cloud" over us before we could find a "smoking gun?" How could we not know that starting a war with an Arab country, for whatever reasons, could only lead to a great expansion of terrorism, not a reduction of terrorism? How could we as a nation have been so stupid as to believe that if we invaded Iraq and established a military occupation we would not be quickly hated, reviled and attacked, however warmly we might be initially received by people glad to be rid of a dictator?
Landrum Bolling
Bolling, president-emeritus of Earlham College, is director-at-large of Mercy Corps and is based in Washington, D.C.
http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dl...511050335/1003
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So the one with the shorter straw or that looks more brownish will win a " all torture inclusive stay " in a secret US foreign prison.
I just love this DEMOCRACY !