Doug,
I know you never been anywhere in your life to understand what others live like, especially under dictators and rulers who don't value human life, or any life for that matter. It doesn't amaze me that most of the people in the US don't get that there are worst ways to live and that others would like nothing but to kill you for what you represent.
I'm going to yank your chain a bit because today is my anniversary of my first trip to a war zone and I am bothered by the shear idiotic comments being made here. I am not just directing it to you, but to others too so don't take it really deeply personal.
I know you lack the real experience some of us have but you can't continue to repeat the same old cr*p that you read on Huffington post or where ever unless you come to understand what it really means.
I feel you don't know what living under Saddam was like or care to know, all you see is a fallacy of things you are told is only the truth. I think if you even talked to one person who lived and suffered under Saddam, you wouldn't be complaining about war profiteers or alleged lying about WMDs.
If you knew the military and the government, you would understand that our country doesn't mobilize to war easily, it takes a lot to get to the point where we are actually deploying and decisions are checked and double checked behind the scenes. It took an act of congress to get the war in Iraq started, these people in congress didn't just listen to Bush and Cheney but were privy to all of the intel that we are NOT privy to. we will never see most of it, and it is the media who would very much want to push our country into chaos by having our secrets exposed under the guise of our right to know, which doesn't exist when our country is at stake.
Bush did the right thing, regardless what you say, he did what the policy of the country was, set by Clinton and took down a dictator. He took the responsibility to free an oppressed country and did it in record time. You don't hear the successes in Iraq, you only repeat the 4000 plus lives that were lost but it really comes down to this; when you mock their mission, you mock those 4000 plus lives. To put this in perspective, we lost over 19,000 men between December 16, 1944 and January 25, 1945 and only stopped en enemy, we didn't topple a government or free an oppressed people but just stood our ground.
You should be d*mn proud of what we did there and if you are not, then you have to tell the 1,250,000 people who lost husbands, wives and children under that dictator, Saddam that they were not worth it. You have to tell the villagers who were from 4000 villages which were killed by Saddam in Al-Anfal campaign. You have to tell the 75,000 people who were gassed with Sarin by Saddam that their lives were worthless. AND those 4000 plus people in the miltary and supporting the operation, tell them they didn't do a thing.
Don't think for a second that this guy could not do harm to you or I, you underestimate a leader of a country who has all kinds of resources at his disposal. If some college student can extract Sarin from Castor Beans in his basement or school lab, don't you think that a guy with a few billion in cash can do the same thing but on a larger scale?
