Reply #246: Uh, right. [View All]

[trogdor]

How can we know the extent of all the issues involved in this War and how it came about. We think we know because people told us something.

It is only my point to say that Time will Tell if it was worth the effort.

Well, the President of the United States told us that Saddam Hussein had nukes, tanker trucks full of anthrax, and God knows what else. We were also told he gassed his own people (back in 1988 when he was our ally, but we weren't supposed to remember that), that he ran rape rooms (sort of like the ones we would run later), that Uday tortured the national soccer team, and all kinds of other shit, as if that had anything to do with us, and if that wasn't enough to convince us, there was a team of scriptwriters ready to make up some more shit that would. We were also told we would be welcomed as liberators that we could do the job neatly with only 150,000 troops, and that we'd be over there for a six months...a year, tops.

How much of that WMD shit actually existed? Zero. Was there ever any "imminent danger" of an attack by Iraq on the United States? Hell no. Saddam Hussein was just another blowhard tinpot dictator who was safely under our thumb, and could have been kept there for the rest of his natural life for a fraction of what our "nation building" exercise is now costing every couple of months, and that doesn't even count the cost in lives and our national honor. This shit wasn't worth even one American's life, and I challenge YOU to convince ME otherwise.