Comments on: Who Lied? http://donklephant.com/2005/10/21/who-lied/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Callimachus http://donklephant.com/2005/10/21/who-lied/comment-page-1/#comment-2974 Callimachus Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:38:30 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=1147#comment-2974 Because "the whole world" told us over and over and over after 9-11, "don't just go kill terrorists; address the root cause of terrorism." And that's what we're doing in Iraq, that was part of the plan all along. Get rid of the kind of tyrants who make life in the Islamic Middle East such a hopeless experience that young men turn into mass killers. So much the better if he's a tyrant we bear a large share of responsibility for maintaining over the years. Show that America is willing to devote our lives and our fortunes to pulling a Muslim country out of hell and giving its people a chance to set itself up as a strong, free beacon of liberty in the region. You can't do that just anywhere. Iraq was the best candidate for it. But even there, the administration miscalculated, or listened to the wrong advice. The country's economy, and its former middle class, was far more wrecked by Saddam's rule than we suspected. Make you a deal, John: I'll not say another word about WMD when you convince your friends in the anti-war movement to let it drop. Because “the whole world” told us over and over and over after 9-11, “don’t just go kill terrorists; address the root cause of terrorism.” And that’s what we’re doing in Iraq, that was part of the plan all along. Get rid of the kind of tyrants who make life in the Islamic Middle East such a hopeless experience that young men turn into mass killers. So much the better if he’s a tyrant we bear a large share of responsibility for maintaining over the years. Show that America is willing to devote our lives and our fortunes to pulling a Muslim country out of hell and giving its people a chance to set itself up as a strong, free beacon of liberty in the region.

You can’t do that just anywhere. Iraq was the best candidate for it. But even there, the administration miscalculated, or listened to the wrong advice. The country’s economy, and its former middle class, was far more wrecked by Saddam’s rule than we suspected.

Make you a deal, John: I’ll not say another word about WMD when you convince your friends in the anti-war movement to let it drop.

]]> By: John http://donklephant.com/2005/10/21/who-lied/comment-page-1/#comment-2972 John Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:07:22 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=1147#comment-2972 Callimachus, We get it the shole world believed Iraq was a bad guy. So is iran, Libya, Pakistan (even though we turned that dictator into a president), N. Korea, Syria... should I continue on with that? Those countries are also quite a bit MORE cozy with Terrorists, under less scrutiny by the UN, and more likely to be a threat to our national interest. Why did we attack Iraq? Because we could. It would be an easy win, and this administration knew it. The knew it so much they underestimated the insurgency that was bound to crop up after the war. So, I'm tired of Righties and Talking heads keep saying "Everyone thought they had WMD!" Who cares! The initial reason to go to war was flawed regardless. Callimachus,

We get it the shole world believed Iraq was a bad guy. So is iran, Libya, Pakistan (even though we turned that dictator into a president), N. Korea, Syria… should I continue on with that? Those countries are also quite a bit MORE cozy with Terrorists, under less scrutiny by the UN, and more likely to be a threat to our national interest. Why did we attack Iraq? Because we could. It would be an easy win, and this administration knew it. The knew it so much they underestimated the insurgency that was bound to crop up after the war. So, I’m tired of Righties and Talking heads keep saying “Everyone thought they had WMD!” Who cares! The initial reason to go to war was flawed regardless.

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