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Originally Posted by Grasshopper
I believe the war to uproot the Taliban and al Queda was necessary. I don't think Iraq was based on the things I've studied. Wolfowitz was pushing to invade Iraq under the first Bush Presidency and then H. W. Bush rebuked him for being to radical and ordered then Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney to re-write the policy papers. I think that our military action in Afghanistan was absolutely called for...however, I'm convinced that Iraq was pushed on us by men with an agenda. While I could be wrong...I firmly believe that once Bush is gone men will come out of the woodwork about how deceptive, secretive, and corrupt this regime has been. And I feel these men will be prominent Republicans who are currently quiet because it would be political suicide to speak out right now.
We'll have to revisit this in a few years. I'm convinced you'll look back at your position here and be amazed that you're lock step behind President Bush.
And bro...radical Islam is bigger right now than it was prior to Bush's invasion of Iraq. As a matter of fact this Administration's policies have united various Islamic factions that used to be at odds in addition to having motivated widespread sympathy and devotion to radical Islam throughout the Middle East and Asia.
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Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11...plain and simple. The night of 9/11, Rumsfield and the other neocons immediately tried to connect the two in order to overthrow Saddam.
Leading up to the war, the Bush Administration made claims that Iraq was helping Al Queda and was sponsoring terrorism...oh, yeah, and they warned of an attack from Iraq using WMD. Remember, the mushroom cloud statement that Bush and Rice stated in order to create more fear in the American public.
A year and a half after the invasion of Iraq, Bush, Cheney and others backed off from the connection between Iraq and 9/11. In fact, they did a 180 and stated that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but Saddam was a tyrant and he was a brutal dictator and he had to be removed for the sake of his people.
If we would have kept our focus in Afghanistan were we have lost ground in rooting out the Taliban in recent months we would have accomplished our objectives in our war on terrorism. When Bush stated a few years ago that he wasn't really that concerned with Osama Bin Laden and the lack of public outrage lead me to believe that we would never win this "war".
Funny how this administration would send a diplomatic envoy to meet with the leader of Sudan who allowed the people of Darfur to be slaughtered by the millions yet felt it necessary to intervene in Iraq where under Saddam the Iraq Christians had more freedom than in Sudan (the majority of those that were slain in Darfur were Christians killed by the muslims).