'Iron-ass' Cheney and 'arrogant' Rumsfeld damaged America, says George Bush Sr

[jem]

While you are wrong about WMDs. I have no problem saying I mistakenly supported the effort to go in there and get the WMDs. And, there was opposition here on et. I was wrong.

But, I had family and friends impacted by the twin towers. I was completely concerned about further attacks in America. I remember trading and watching the market react to wmd scares for the next year or two. I thought we had to go in there and stop it.

But... I was under the mistaken impression our leaders could do it the right way, for the right reasons, and have it paid for. It will be a long time before I believe any establishment politician can do anything properly.

Tough calls ? No. Pretty much the whole world said don't invade Iraq, there are no WMDs, that the premises being put out there were total bs. But Americans bought it hook, line, and sinker. I remember conversing with some Americans before the invasion, they believed so strongly in the war and that everything their government and the media was feeding them was true.

Fuck the idea that it was a "tough call". It was an easy call. You don't start meaningless wars costing many lives using totally made up premises. And now, it is clearly proven that they made everything up. And don't think regular Americans didn't pay as price for buying these projects. A good chunk of rising taxes comes from funding the war, and that's not to take away from the immorality of having many young people die fighting this useless war that the dumbass George W. wanted to fight.

Fuck your idea that the execution was off. The whole project was immoral based on lies. George W. should have been charged with war crimes.

 

[wildchild]

First of all, after 9/11 we had to go to Afghanistan and hunt Al-Qaeda. Iraq was stupid and people like Hillary Clinton, who supported it, need to answer for that.

Some people say 'Hindsight is 20/20'. It is not. The attacks changed the world and the mindset of Americans. We not only had 9/11 to deal with, we had a sniper who was killed people for fun, as well numerous anthrax attacks. Assholes who look back with 20/20 are full of shit.