ND, Iraq had precisely zero to with 9/11 and there was OVERWHELMING evidence to the contrary. Bush lied out of his ass six ways for sunday to concoct a pretext to invade. IN fact, he was 100% clear that it was Bin Laden and he was told by the Clinton administration wWHEN HE TOOK OFFICE Bin Laden would attack, and his own intelligence briefing said Al Qaeda was going to be using airplanes to attack. No one with two neurons to rub together was searching for answers, because we all knew exactly who the threat was and who attacked.
Those LIES about Iraq weren't corroborated anywhere outside of the lying propaganda machine of Fox News. In the world of sane people, it was clearly a fabrication and every intelligence service knew it. They also knew there were no weapons. The UN knew it, Bush knew it.
But he needed a bump in his poll numbers before the 2004 election, so he concocted a war and it worked. That was the only reason for invading Iraq. Frankly, the Vietnam was war shorter, less expensive and caused less damage globally, BB.
He is a war criminal, 100% And that's without the torture. It's a dire comment on America that he's walking around free.
The last thing we need is to piss money down the rat hole of the military. We need to fire half the military, mothball everything and spend the money on real needs.
Forget modernizing the military. Modernize our schools, our health care system, our infrastructure and our energy grid.
@BB, I never said anything about existential threat. At least not to the US. IN bosnia, there was a genocide, for which Ratko Mladic was just convicted and will die in prison. Same with Kosovo. In Somalia there was a warlord generated famine. All three were entirely justified. Clinton said his biggest regret was not intervening in the genocide in Rwanda, which was also right.
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