strike three

[jazzfish]

Weapons of mass destruction? Not there.

Ties to al-Qaeda? Tenuous at best.

But hey. At least we stopped the civil rights abuses under a dictatorial regime.

Whoops. Guess we dropped the ball on that one, too.

Over a thousand coalition troops dead. Billions and billions of dollars spent. For what?

Comments

[squirrelmadness.livejournal.com]

So that we can feel good about outselves while watching football. Obviously.

[dasphios.livejournal.com]

Revenge. Dubya hasn't the character to let it go, the brains to wait for an honest fight, or the decency to settle it one on one. It was the only option.

[profworm.livejournal.com]

Instead of having terrorists trying to kill us in our own country, we have them trying to kill us in someone else's country instead. That way the civilians killed are Iraqi, and not Americans.

The revenge part was just icing.

Why does Bush hate America?

[jonny-law.livejournal.com]

Normally I don't like to cite Bushisms because they trivialize as humorous misspeaks the actions of a president who has been more divisive than any American President since Jefferson Davis. However, I think the War on Iraq has been the first implementation of Bush's policy to never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people (http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/05/bush.ap/index.html).

On the other hand, under the Kerry administration we can expect continued support for corrupt oil-producing regimes and more atrocities commited by the military, as he has promised to recruit more special forces to conduct terrorist actions. At least he's thinking of new ways to harm other countries and other people.