Quote from Maverick74:
There are no facts in politics, only opinions. Second, the Iraq War did not start in 2004. It started when we lobbed missiles into their country and started killing their people. And to be fair, it even started before that with the first Gulf War. Let me ask you something, if Canada fired missiles into the US and bombed one of our military facilities in let's say Illinois, and killed a few people on the side, would you consider that an act of War? I would. And would we respond? Fuck yeah, we would probably blow Canada right off the northern shelf. That's what I'm trying to get through to you. You act like this is a football season where there is a beginning and an end and then we start all over again. That's not how the real world works. When we bomb another country and kill their people, that event is not a GAME. That doesn't go up in the win column. And the next President to come in doesn't get to start with a clean slate. No, each new president enters the game with the clock running and has to deal with all the events that happened before. What I'm trying to say is the Iraq War has been on going for decades now. There is no off season. There is no free agency or draft or half time or TV timeouts. Bush didn't start anything. He continued it. Can you blame him or his administration how he handled his time on the clock? Sure. And that's exactly what opposing parties do. Republicans rail against Clinton, Carter, LBJ, JFK and the dems shout at Nixon, Reagan, Bush sr, jr, etc.
The intelligent people see beyond that. They see we have a flawed foreign policy that has been consistent for 75 years. Sure the players change, the colors of the uniform change, the backdrop changes, but the policy is the same. All I know is, if we as a country got bombed, had sanctions placed on us, had our leaders get assassinated, etc on a regular basis, we wouldn't be sitting here discussing it. We would probably unload our nuclear arsenal on the world. Hopefully one day you will see through the right/left paradigm and start thinking more clearly. Once you let go of your hate towards the republicans and start looking at policy only, things will become more clear to you. Until then, you will resort to the logic of a 5 year old and just say it's Bush's fault. I use to play that game when I was 5 with my sister. I would simply blame everything on her. Of course I stopped doing that when I like turned 7 or 8. I realized it that early it was stupid excuse. Some people take longer though, and I do understand that.
