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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
Actually, I think most hate him because around 5,000 of our soldiers are dead and many times that wounded - and all for a war he lied to get us into. That was all him - no one else, save for Cheney.
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A lie involves intent. Bill Clinton, the Russians, the British, and many other countries all believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Saddam said he did his level best to convince everyone that he did. Saddam's own generals believed he had weapons of mass destruction.
Mistake? Yes. Lie? No.
At the beginning of the war, NBC was reporting that 50,000 casualties were possible and likely. We're at a tenth of that. Not that casualties aren't important, but it is quite a feat to march into a country and only lose 5,000 soldiers. My brother-in-law was wounded twice in Iraq and he still believes in the mission. Before she married me, my wife was engaged to a soldier killed by a road-side bomb. She never blamed Bush for that, she blamed the terrorists he was fighting. She was even a democrat then. The point is that most of our soldiers believe in their mission. So, why should you have a bigger problem than they do? Why make the deaths in vain, especially when even your candidate had to back off of his withdrawal stance because of the overwhelming success of the surge? Anything I've heard him suggest, tough sanctions against Iran, diplomatic talks, etc have been tried to death. He said he would withdraw the troops, then bring them back if the killing resumed. Our commanders believe that the killing will get worse when we leave, if we left now. So, how is Obama any better? All you'd get is a much worse situation after he pulls out, then a redeployment to an even bigger mess.
You can't stick your head in the sand and pretend the mess doesn't exist. Again, more racism from the Democratic party; Harry Reid saying that the Iraqi's are not worth a single American life. I'm disgusted.