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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
I know - we agree that W is the worst thing that has happened to this country in a long, long time and not only on Iraq. I just think out loud before concluding and I hate general statements that tend IMO to exonerate all culpable parties, which in this case are many on both sides of the aisle as the war in Iraq has been going on far longer than our actual invasion of that country, which complicates the situation.
In the end, this is how I feel:
1. Bush alone is responsible for the current war in Iraq. He and his henchmen manipulated the intelligence to suit his purposes and then when WMD, which the world via the UN unanimously thought were there, were not discovered, Bush said essentially "oh well who cares because SH was a bad guy." That was a horrible thing to do and I think he should be impeached for that and, perhaps more importantly, the apparent complete lack of a plan to win the peace after the initial invasion and his other significant and numerous "errors" in the war on terror. I also think the corruption in the UN, France, and Russia certainly did not help matters - but in the end, Bush pushed for it and he must take the blame, which he will not do. Sadly, people buy into his BS because they hate all Muslims and do not really care which ones die as long as they die.
2. In the discussion of the Downing Street Memo. and its text implicating Bush in the manipulation of the WMD intelligence to wage an already planned war, I maintain the D's cannot and will not impeach Bush on this for two related reasons. First, too many D's voted to give W the authority to go to war based on the intelligence and these same D's had been vociferous in the past about ousting SH, making him comply with the UN, etc. - all based essentially on this same intelligence. Second, Clinton, with the support of the D's, also killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and also outright attacked Iraq and risked an all out war in that region based essentially on this same intelligence, which he still stands by to this day. Thus, the D's will never go to impeach Bush on this topic - if anything, Clinton will not let them because his and the D's hands are too dirty, though perhaps not as dirty as Bush in this particular war or last set of events in Iraq. That is the only reason I brought up Clinton in this thread.
3. Though the people that actually do the grunt work for Halliburton and related companies mostly are good people (I actually know many because I am from a oil service related town) - the fact that Halliburton got a no bid contract now or at any other time is horrible and I wish the D's would investigate that, but I think they know their hands are too dirty there as well given their past support of Halliburton.
BTW - almost all of the Fox articles I cite are AP articles that could be found on just about all large news cites. I tend to avoid cites like the one you cited because I am not fond of one sided opinions, which I think the AP is not.
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