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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
I'll give you a run-down on the wilson thing. Joe Wilson was a foreign diplomat, and was sent to africa to investigate the claim of Iraq purchasing yellowcake from Niger. Wilson went, along with his wife valeri plame, and found zero evidence to back up that claim. He reported it, the report was ignored, so he wrote an op-ed piece in the new york times condemning the administration for lying about the information they had as a pretext for war. that's a treasonous act. For his effort, Robert Novak revealed that his wife was a cia operative working specifically on information about weapons of mass destruction. That information was leaked to him by 'two senior administration officials', one of which is currently under indictment (scooter libby). Also a treasonous act.
Well, that might be the case, but before taking an entire nation to war against another, you might want to have more than 'belief'. or, you know, you might want to say "we have no new intellignece which would suggest saddam hussein is developing weapons of mass destruction, so LYING about it is probably not the best course of action."
There isn't much grey area here, despite what political leanings you might have. I'm socially left-wing and economically right-wing (under the context of existing systems), but treason is treason, a lie is a lie and both should be treated as such.
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If it was in fact treason or a complete lie then you'd be on to something but I've seen reports that indicate it's not quite as open and shut as that.
Hussein's behaviour suggested he had something to hide, and the UN's inability to put teeth behind any of the resolutions they passed put the US and Great Britain in a serious bind.
It's easy to now say they shouldn't have gone in, but much like when Clinton went into Serbia despite not getting UN approval, sometimes it's proven the other way and the world is glad things went the way they did.
Bush had no foreign policy when he came to office and was criticized for such. 911 put him in a situation where he couldn't have that happen again. From his chair he couldn't afford to be wrong and his chief intelligence guy was telling him the WMD were there.
He tried the UN over and over again.
He tried to get Hussein to step down and avoid a war.
Then he went in.
I think there's a lot more grey area than you're willing to admit.