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"The politicized intelligence officers in his own administration?"
And previous Administrations, and other countries' Administrations. (IIRC)
Posted by zachary d smith at December 30, 2003 09:07 AM
I mean did you really believe it? You seemed more of the Saddam is a tyrant school than into WMD hysteria, which if he had them, may have been able to fly over a map of the USA on those duct-tape drone planes.
Posted by Chris at December 31, 2003 02:29 AM
Yeah, I did believe it. Tony Blair, GWB, Clinton, (and so on, and so on) put their word against Saddam's. I side with the non-tyrant pretty much 99 times out of 100.
But, even if Bush/Blair/Clinton/et al were absolutely wrong about his weapons capabilities, the world is still a better place now that he's out of power. Win-win situation.
I do wish the Administration would be more forthcoming about the whole "we've failed so far to find WMD thing," -- true -- and not make such shallow attempts at switching the primary reason of the war to the humanitarian argument. On the flip side of the coin, critics should admit that there were humanitarian reasons for the war as well (mentioned in roughly every speech on the issue ever), even if it wasn't the primary one.
Then again, spreading democracy (and I'm very, very tired of 'liberals' pooh-poohing what is essentially the most representative government in the ME) is probably the best long-term defense policy a government can take.
Posted by zachary d smith at December 31, 2003 09:14 AM
We'll see how it goes on July 2nd or in two years when the US troops may actually leave. It's not that someone like me is rooting against democracy taking hold and good things happening, I'm just totally convinced that the Bush administration can't handle it, and that they're rely on the short memories and lack of interest of the American people to argue as if they'd done everything right in the first place.
Posted by Chris at December 31, 2003 01:57 PM
Now that we have found WMD, does that change your self-loathing stance?
Posted by RyleWashburn at June 25, 2004 10:21 PM
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