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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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".
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That's actually not what I'm saying. I'm saying the dialogue that convinced people to go to war in Iraq was total deception. Why not invade Zimbabwe instead? That guy was pretty bad too. Pol Pot was way worse. They needed a reason beyond oil and so they manufactured a reason. Now, we're getting the same story about Syria by the same people who brought you Nayira and WMD"s. How do you know what they tell you about Assad is true? How do you know the CIA didn't do the dirty work themselves?
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Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!'
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