Well....Well....Well

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Riot

Well, measurable reality is a pretty good thing when you are going to be the aggressor and invade a country, and be responsible for the deaths of thousands of your countrymen and theirs.

We know Bush got cables saying there were WMD, that's one of the reasons why he justified going to war. Even Bush says the cables were wrong.

That's the mantle the US wears, like it or not

[SCUDSBROTHER]

It's almost always a mistake to think you can help people to free themselves from a bad leader, or a bad group of leaders. The people of the country are usually messed up (to begin with,) and the horrible leaders are simply a symptom of that. We've tried to do this twice over there, and it hasn't worked, because the people in the 2 countries are rotten. You can protect yourself (or other countries) by knocking out bad leaders, but you won't fix the people that allowed that leader to take hold. The only reason it worked in Germany and Japan is because a significant portion of their male populations were destroyed. So, if one of the reasons Bush went into these countries was to "free" them, then, I think that was a poor decision.