WMD's didn't exist.
I'll have to beg your pardons since this is a little off the track but.......
There has been something bugging me since this first came up after the Invasion.
The UN inspectors thought there was.
The CIA Intelligence said there was, the Secretary of defense said there was. The President said there was....................That would be during the Clinton Administration!
Why is it that leftist have such poor memories?
Could it be that it just is easy to make that argument after the fact.
Would it dawn on anyone that during all the time that the bureaucracy was going on and Sadam was stone walling that he was moving any thing out or destroying it. HEHADPOISONGASHEUSEDIT.
So lets have an honest dialog about this (if we're gonna have one) no partisan play book responses.
I Will be the first to say that I wish we had not gone into Iraq, and there was plenty of mistakes made there. but all criticism Now is after the fact armchair quarterback BS
And that Statement is just pure disingenuous partisan crap!
as is this Anger/Hate Doctrine towards my Latino Heritage!
Oldshooter, China, Russia, Pakistan, India, and others have nuclear weapons. We, the U.S. are the only one's in HISTORY to ever actually USE THEM. Yet "WE" have decided that "WE" are the moral compass of what other countries can have and not have? Whom appointed us sheriff of the world? The "WORLD" resents this arrogance and rightly so.
Our government has entered an age of self-righteous, PREemptive strikes, in "what they might do" type of enforcement against other countries. We are trying to FORCE our brand of government on folks whom don't want it, much like the Christian Crusades of yesteryear, where we say: Change to our way of doing things or we will OCCUPY you. And we have proven that we indeed will.
We talk of the butchery of Saddam and his gas as you mentioned, yet
YOUR TAX DOLLAR, thru government funding to Planned Parent Hood, has BUTCHERED 50,000,000 and counting BABIES. Saddam had not even approached this number, nor did Hitler and Saddam COMBINED, yet THEY ARE THE MEASURING STICK OF EVIL to this country the U.S. Our government holds itself accountable to NO ONE, including you and I yet we do nothing but JUSTIFY their actions, in comparison to such small time thugs as Saddam.
Bush called 3 countries the AXIS OF EVIL, and evil they indeed are, but do you really think we are doing the "Will of God", with out own butchering and making of war? We seem much like the old Rome, as WE are the righteous, and they the peasant, we lord over, and like Rome we are, and will suffer the same fate.
I love my country, I love my Constitution, and my Bill of Rights, however I love my God FIRST, and there are 50,000,000+ souls we have shipped back to Him saying: NO THANKS, we killed'em so you can have'm back. They were a burden to us. God Bless America?
We need to MIND OUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS, take care of OUR NEEDS, secure OUR BORDERS, and protect US. We have bankrupted our country protecting folks that hate us, but we spend nothing protecting US! We put Border Patrol Agents IN PRISON "UNDER BUSH" for shooting drug smugglers, and PARDON DOPE DEALERS, AND THEIVES.
Those Border Patrol Agents were HEROS, and Bush merely commuted their sentence to time served, while he PARDONED and wiped away the records of Dope Dealers, and Thieves. What a travesty of justice, and morality. We have lost our way, this country, and we have people that cannot even make up their minds, or refuse to defend their own homes under some type of pretense, when this same rogue government decides to INVADE THEM. Now this is the way I see things from a Christian's point of view, and I give not a hang whether ANYONE agrees with me.
I am an old man now, whom in the past, for 20 years DEFENDED other people's rights, AND THEIR HOMES, against what ever threat, and have the scars to prove it. I don't ask for thanks, nor do I expect it, as it was MY CHOICE, and it was the RIGHT CHOICE. Old yes, but make no mistake, I will STILL damn sure fight.
SO! Oldshooter, if I have offended you, I am sorry that you are offended, but what I gave you here is the TRUTH. And when the last U.S. boot leaves Iraq it will go back to the same type of misery it was before out self-righteous government sold that bill of goods to us almost 2 decades ago. Ask my son, he spent 2 tours over there watching his fellow 82nd Air Borne, AND OTHER BRANCHS, pay in blood. And he oughta know.
And bubba, before you or anyone else of the other side come back at me, you are wasting your breath. I do not now, nor will I ever, allow someone to invade my home. I signed onto this countries' ORIGINAL BILL OF RIGHTS, and it's ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION, and GOD GAVE ME MY FREEDOM, and FREEDOM AIN'T FREE. Now I'm done.