Posted by ay beecee on 09/14/07 15:43

As a programmer, you might be exptected to
associate these events in a more logical way.

Sure, Saddam was a bad guy.
And yes, we were attacked by muslim extremists.
But Saddam was not the only bad guy in the
world, and was not in cahoots with Al Queda.
He did not attack us. There was no Al Queda in
Iraq until after the war started.

We had a golden opportunity to kick ass in Afganistan,
rebuild a country and make some allies. But we scewed
it up bigtime. We gave Osama his best christmas present
possible: the world's greatest recruiting tool,
wrapped in an impossible-to-win civil war.

Bush is a moron. The only remaining excuse for
starting this war (they've changed motivations a
half a dozen times now) is nation building. By
creating a land-of-milk-and-honey democracy in
Iraq, we will indirectly defeat Al Queda. That's
nation building, which Bush promised we would not do.

And it's a building construction project with little
hope of success. We might be stuck with it now,
whether we like it or not. But it's important to remember
the fools who got us into this mess in the first place.

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