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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Part of that sadism was a bunch of "atrocity propaganda"... made up stories including one about Iraqi soldiers chucking babies out of incubators; a story that would obviously make people think we should go to war. Another of these examples is the wmd nonsense during the second go around with Sadaam. Powell was coached for days about how to make it all sound believable. His 2003 speech at the UN is now obviously propaganda and deception.
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Dude... yes, a bunch of the basis upon which the Iraq war was sold to everyone was absolute nonsense, particularly the WMD stuff. But to even attempt to downplay the degree to which that country was an absolute abbatoir of awfulness is absurd.
Had the war instead been sold as "this is a mission of mercy to liberate Iraq's citizens from a horrible dictatorial regime", the appropriate response might have been, "sure, but our intervention isn't likely to make things any better for those people, so let's not spend lives and money on it". It certainly would not have been, "we shouldn't, because things there aren't as bad as you're claiming".