Originally posted by jimH It's amazing how people can pretend that Bush was the cause of the wars that we are involved in now, when in reality the wars were a response to attacks on our security. I guess it's all in your particular political bent.
Really, now. 'Response.' That why they lied about Iraq and WMDs? And rushed to get us stuck in while actually pulling our troops away from the actual target , to make a case for Iraq, even though it had nothing to do with 'attacks' and screwed up the whole region for ten years running? Making a general *security disaster* out of what had at least been one dictator, however bad, with some interest in stability?
'Response.' Right. Attacking a totally-different country on a pretense of 'security' even though the whole rest of the world said, 'It'll only destabilize the whole region,' and our best general said, 'Pottery barn' and *resigned* after being ordered to sell it?
That's no response, and if it was, it was a crappy, insane, incompetenty-executed, but very profitable for a few response.
Excuse, more like.
'Secure?' What a joke. If that all made things 'secure' I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have had to submit to a rent-a-cop groping to go see the in-laws this past Thanksgiving.
'Response' would have been one (1) military spec metric sh-- ton of you-know-what-comes-in-this-can directly applied to Tora Bora, and *done.* What next, kids. Ready?
What happened was no 'response,' it was a Cheney/Rummy/Bush wish list of 'Mushroom cloud WMD God Spoke To me What Are You Traitor Support Our Troops It'll Pay for Itself But It's Not For Oil Rose Parade Welcomed As Liberators What me Plan?' ...that had nothing to do with anything *but* that cadre in the White House.