To call bush's war 'a mistake' is really insulting.

[Philosoraptor]

I swear I want to spit every time I hear that this was all some terrible mistake, I heard it this morning on the talks too. I think calling it a mistake is just a trick phrase used to hide the true meaning, as the bushnazis have done with our entire language.

To call the neo con war profiteer's war a mistake seems to me like a lame excuse, a word that softens the truth, takes part of the blame away of having followed bush like an adoring puppy right into Iraq.

To me, a mistake is when you give someone the wrong change, or you get their order wrong, or when you say something wrong and have to correct it, but when half a million people are dead in Iraq, who had nothing to do with nine eleven, and three thousand soldiers are dead, and when 20,000 are crippled forever and people are being tortured to death by the thousands around Baghdad, you can't get away with calling it all 'a mistake', sorry, you can't.

[spanone]

1. Pre-planned to maximize oil profits. A mafia hit from Bush* & Neocons.

[Greeby]

2. Tom Morello made a good point on Real Time

He said that everyone makes jokes about the Mission Accomplished banner, but in Shrub's mind he and his buddies were gonna get rich off this war, so in his mind the mission WAS accomplished

[FormerDittoHead]

3. The consequences aside, it was NOT a mistake..

If the vast majority of our intelligence said they had WMD/programs and that they were actively engaged with terrorist groups, then the President, IMO, would have been justified in going to war. Of course, the international community would have agreed as well.

HOWEVER, the vast majority of intelligence showed no such thing, and a coordinated plan cherry picked, etc., etc..

The point isn't how many are dead/injured. If ONE person had lost their life over this LIE it is a tragedy. But the FACT is that it was a LIE - A CONSPIRACY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE to cull the information that would THEN be presented to the Senate and the Congress.

It wasn't a mistake. It was a manufactured LIE.

[bluerum]

4. Well - rumor is that the squatter in chief really said "Lemonade and

a snack", but Rumbsfailed thought he said "Invade Iraq".

The rest is history.

[Philosoraptor]

5. from bush's vast dyslexicon

[indepat]

6. Those who call pre-emptive war a mistake equate half a million dead Iraqis, three

thousand dead soldiers, and 20,000 crippled soldiers to giving someone the wrong change or getting their order wrong at the drive-up: it's called 'puke values/'puke morality and tens of millions of Amurikkkans love and eat it up, lock, stock and barrel. :crazy:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

7. Criminal acts are not mistakes. n/t

MKJ

[wryter2000]

8. It wasn't even a failure

It was meant to get him "re-elected," and it worked.

[still_one]

9. Mistake my ass, IT WAS A LIE

[gulliver]

10. It could prove to be the single biggest mistake in history.

Calling it a mistake doesn't make it minor. It's still a disaster. The fact that the disaster was the result of a mistake just means that blame can be assigned for the disaster. So Bush and the GOP are to blame for a disaster.

Beyond that, the mistake might have been made with a guilty mind on the part of the decision maker(s). At this point it isn't hard to conclude that Bush and his supporters hid and distorted information that could have prevented the mistake from being made. That makes the mistake a type of crime, not in the sense of breaking a specific statute necessarily, but a crime. A malfeasance by deception.

Statute, treaty, and Constitutional violations also appear to have been perpetrated. So there is a definite "whiff" of prosecutable crime in the air too. That's in addition to the mistake, though, not in place of it.

[Bobbie Jo]

11. Even if it was characterized as a "mistake"

This level of incompetence must not be tolerated. "Mistakes" of this magnitude are inexcusable.

The term "malpractice" comes to mind.....

[mdmc]

12. I think that mistake is a noble characterization of this war

I hear some folks that used to think that this war was the greatest thing that America has ever done now calling it a mistake.

We have come a long way. History will take us further.

[shadowknows69]

13. Oops

our bad. Everything's ok now right?

[Philosoraptor]

14. sorry about that chief

[shadowknows69]

15. Maxwell Smart reference!!!

5 points for raptor!