Quote from dotslashfuture:
The people that are upset now are the same ones that were upset before the war, which are the same ones that simply hate Bush.
Did Bush lie about WMD ? I honestly don't know because I'm not in the CIA and neither are any of you.
Try to imagine what it would have been like with Gore as president. Do you know what would have happened ? Absolutely nothing.
Would that be better ? no way.
I disagree. I was supporting the war effort, as a means to eliminate the threat of WMD, which I was lead to believe were a direct threat to my personal and national security.
Now, I have every reason to believe that they still exist (Bush said they exist, right?) but that we have no idea where they are.
This doesn't created a sense of personal or national security when there the types of weapons floating around out there as were described by the administration.
Imagine a condition where we attacked North Korea, because the administration said they have 50 nuclear warheads capable of being launched onto our shores.
Then imagine that we attack North Korea, and conquer the country, but can't find the leader nor the nuclear weapons.
Would you feel more secure knowing that 50 nuclear weapons were unaccounted for, and more people now have a reason to use them than ever before?
I don't think so.
We have proven our intelligence is not very good, as we are incapable of finding Bin Laden after all this time, going on 2 years this September.
This is not a situation that is unreasonable to want to know where the WMDs are that were claimed to be a threat to us, and to be getting explanations from the administration now that it really doesn't matter, or hearing from supporters that we should be not be concerned, or that we should be happy about liberating Iraq, or any other justification of the war is not accpeptable to me, and I don't see how it is acceptable to any other rational person who understands the nature of the damage WMD can inflict.
Until those weapons are found, or until there is proof that they were destroyed, the threat has actually increased in my opinion of those weapons being used as a means to retaliate for our actions in Iraq.
We did not destroy an enemy, we strengthened the cause of one, if not many, and now they may be armed with WMD that they would not have had otherwise.
This is fully and 100% Bush's responsibility and duty to solve this problem. He made this mess, he needs to clean it up.
It amazes me that the general public is so easily duped as to not understand what really took place, and the potential consequences down the road if those WMD are not found.
This is all based on the assumption that WMD did in fact exist in the manner that the Bush administration claimed they in did prior to the beginning of the war.
If the WMD were never there, and Bush in any way knew that, or had reason to doubt the intelligence that he used to convince the American people that the threat was real, and one that had to be dealt with militarily....he should suffer the consequences for that lying to the American people to justify his own agenda.
In any case, the more the administration tries to tell us that the location of the WMD, or the existence of the WMD is no longer relevant, the more I begin to distrust them.
It is very relevant for the reasons I have outlined above.
