Of course it's morally and philosophically wrong, repugnant, and vile. War often is. And therein lies the reason to make up "feel good" rationales. Liberating a nation is steeped in nobility. But if liberating nations and securing ourselves from terrorists is the aim, maybe Saudi Arabia and Yemen would have been better targets.
I'm just sayin...
Or has our propping up these 2 despotic govt's been an underlying cause to the terrorist uprising?
I'm just saying back..........
BTW: Research the US fingerprint in Yemen and you'll find the House of Saud all in the middle of it.
As to my WHY? question, that pertained to nothing other than "Why" in May and August of 2006' on 2 seperate occasions did Bush (see vid @ post #54) and Rumsfeld (see vid @ post #62) say there were no WMD in Iraq, then in his recent
book and in
interviews Bush again supported his regret that there was no WMD in Iraq and then in 2007' on Meet the Press, Colin Powell said the same thing:
[video=youtube;FejQH_VCB24]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FejQH_VCB24&NR=1[/video]
So I go back to the following assertion, regardless of power, money, conspiracies, whatever (forget all that) and taking the several incidents of WMD or the possibility of WMD (in the case of the 1500 gallon precusor material which I've never seen final test results of and per the article, testing was forthcoming) but for the moment, let's conceed all these incidents are in fact hard evidence of WMD, then I ask again, why did President Bush, Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld and Sec. of State Colin Powell all 3 state that no WMD was found in Iraq when we all here have seen evidence contrary to those assertions? When there is this evidence as has been linked here by AV8 and when early on Bush and his adminstration were so insistent there was WMD, why the 180 degree change?
I'm not asking anything to be proven by anyone here to support their belief that WMD existed, I've conceded the WMD arguement as fact to move beyond it and get to the bigger question. What I'm asking is why did/have these guys changed in what they believed to be true when evidence as AV posted now suggests otherwise?
Why?