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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna
And the Bush camp. knows that that is one of the top things on the minds of Americans - they are therefore using fear as a campaign tactic....and that sucks - because it's a powerful tool - playing on people's fears....
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and - it just boggles my mind that people are so willing to give W a free pass on failing to prevent 9/11. The evidence was there - they just failed to put it all together. While I readily admit, it would have taken a lot of breaks and luck to do so, the Bush Adminsitration by all accounts of the people who were there, were not really concentrating on Al-Q and instead were looking at ways to invade Iraq. So, some fault must be assigned to them. AND - what do they say about that - they certainly did not apologize or even seem contrite. THEN - they did not learn from their mistake in that instead of continuing to pursue Al-Q (the people that attacked us here and elsewhere) - they refocused on Iraq and went into a wqar that perhaps could have been prevented and most certainly was based on a false premise (immediate threat to the U.S. if SH was not removed) - yet, once again, they were wrong and did they apologize - no. Instead, they justify the death of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi's (again we are there because the common Iraqi is our friend and we are trying to help them) and over 1,000 U.S. soldiers with countless others on all sides severly injured - by saying America was justified because SH was a "bad guy" - That excuse fails with me and I am appalled anyone would accept it, esp. considering W said he would not go to war on ANY resaon other than the case where Amercia was in immediate danger from a direct threat
Then, the whole post-Iraq scenario has been a total scew up from day one, which again, could have been somewhat avoided if we had taken our time and actually prepared to go into Iraq. Alas, W did not and now we are paying the price for it.