03-08-2016, 08:36 PM
(03-08-2016, 06:25 PM)blueberryhill Wrote: I am sure Hillary made a lot of mistakes, and because of those mistakes and her experience with adversity makes her qualified to run this country.
Where is your self righteous anger over George W. Bush starting a war in Iraq based on false intelligence. Have you ever talked to a mom, a wife, a sister, brother, etc? More lives were lost on Mid-east desert soil than 9/11. Most of the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia....and news of an impending attack on the WTC was received here by US intelligence but not acted upon. Where is your fucking anger about that? Since 1993 (first bombing of WTC), to 2001, there was information trickling through about an imminent attack......We got complacent, and didn't take any actions and thus, 9⁄11 happened......I don't understand this misplaced blame that some of you have toward the wrong target......
I don't think it's self-righteous in nature, blueberry, but the bullshit that was used to sell and justify the invasion of Iraq angers me to this day. In my opinion, the lives lost (U.S. and worldwide) over such a deception-based act of aggression is tragic and shameful. How that deception changed global relations, for the worse, is something that will haunt the U.S. and our allies for long to come (in my opinion).
Based on nothing more than gut impression, I blame Dickhole Cheney and Rumsfeld more than W though. Still, W is technically ultimately responsible, and I used to assume that Bush Sr. maybe pushed him to go there in order to settle his score with Saddam. But, I think I was wrong about that assumption after having read what Bush Sr. himself recently had to say about the invasion. He could be lying, but I tend to believe him for the most part, for whatever reason.
Anyway, it sounds like you and I are in agreement that the invasion of Iraq was a disgraceful act, it hurt the world immensely, and the free-pass/blind-eye given to the Saudis was some greed-based bullshit alright.
And..........like it or not, there's one politician in the presidential running who openly agrees with us (at least last I heard, loudly and publicly from his own mouth). Yep, Donald Trump.