Originally posted by Silat
1. Although Saddam was a despicable tyrant, I opposed toppling him because I thought the war would prove bloody and hugely expensive, and would probably leave the world more chaotic and dangerous than before.
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Bloody...not nearly as bad as It could have been, Expensive...yes I will agree with that
2. I insisted that the White House was inflating its claims about Iraq being an imminent threat.
Loudly criticised yet hardly proven
3. I doubted that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11.
probably very little but he could have had EVERYTHING to do with the NEXT 9/11
4. I believed that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld would botch the reconstruction of Iraq.
Other than set major policy these three have very little to do with what's actually done on the ground.
5. I was shocked and appalled by Abu Ghraib.
shocking and appalling things happen everyday, the world is an imperfect place
6. I worried that the war would turn the world against us.
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aside from france Germany and Russia, the liberals of the world will get over it.
7. I scoffed every time we captured or killed the insurgents’ number-two man.
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so you are saying you DONT want US troops to succeed? When one number-two man is killed he is often replaced no?
8. I . . .
You get the point.
no I don't get your point. Actively blaiming every failure of the war on Bush becuase it hurts him and that supports your agenda does hurt the overall effort. Asking for a troop pull out immediatly gives a HUGE win to terrorists all over the world. Calling the war grim/failure/mess at halftime is grosly exaggerating the situation. I beleive in my heart that there are people out there in this world and in the US that want the war in Iraq to fail because they hate the president that much.
and PS you didn't lose the war in Iraq, it is not lost.....as I said it's only halftime.
