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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
Also, notice how he cleverly refuses to hold Clinton or Kerry to the same standard he holds W to even though Iraqi's died in both situations and both by the same reasoning for the deaths. To do so would be to appear as giving credibilty to W and that can never happen  |
I never once claimed that Clinton and Kerry were right when it came to Iraq.
I think it's slick how you try to win your argument when it comes to Kerry, but I simply do not hold a senator to the same standard as the President of the United States. To do so would not only be a stretch, but also rather ridiculous. Maybe Kerry knew the intel was bogus, who knows, people believe what they want to believe. But he didn't manufacture the evidence like Dubya. Dubya drafted plans to invade Iraq before he even became "president." So, while they are both quite misguided and pathetic when it comes to this whole situation, I hold the President of the United States to a higher standard than a senator. Tough tacos. How Dubya's credibility factors into this argument is a mystery to me, especially when it's obvious the man has none. He had a duty to make sure that all of his intel was factually correct before he killed innocent people, he didn't do that. Clinton had a duty to make sure that Saddam was actually making/possessing WMDs before he sent missiles to kill innocent people, he didn't do that. They were both wrong. But when it comes to your credible Dubya, Jason, he's even worse when it comes to his motives for going to war, the sheer incompetence of everything he's done and everyone he's appointed, and the ramifications of it all. And quite honestly, I'm sick of you trying to justify Dubya's bad actions by pointing at Clinton's bad actions, as if they're the same. That's something a sleazy hack on Faux News would do. And it's the apologist in you.