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We now know that there were no WMD in Iraq. We now know that there was no imminent or pre-imminent threat by Iraq to the USA. We now know that there were no ongoing biological or chemical weapons programs in Iraq. We now know that the nuclear program was dead from 1991 and had not been reconstituted as was claimed. With these points, we now know that Saddam did NOT have these arsonals - which begs a question (the first one) did he comply with the UN demands that he disarm - in the spirit of the resolutions???????
And secondly, knowing all this, knowing that the US went to war under false pretenses, knowing that we were misled, how can we continue the crusade? How can we PRESUME that Iraq will someday be a sort of US loving democracy, when we know for a fact, that we went over there and destroyed the country for lies, misstatements, exaggerations and false intelligence? How can we fight for some semblance of the moral high ground when we took the low road to imperialism?
I am fully aware of the tightrope the next president is walking on. Antiwar sentiments seem to be antipresidential.....I sort of understand that. But, how can you continue a policy that was so wrong in so many ways? If you start down a wrong road - how is it that you somehow think you will get to your destination in full knowledge that it was the WRONG ROAD?
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