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Originally posted by russellwarshay
Please re-read the transcripts of the presidential addresses leading up to this war. WMDs were not the entire justification for going to war.
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I don't generally look for the truth in presidential transcripts.
There were multiple ways Bush tried to gain support for the war. Overblowing the threat of Iraq's WMDs was the only really successful one (others, such as Saddam being a tyrant, were only mentioned as justification to make us sound noble and less self-involved) that drew people to the cause. Most Americans really did not care that Saddam was killing and torturing Iraqis, evidenced by the fact that most of us knew that this was going on for years and never attempted to do anything about it. Bush preyed on the fear and paranoia that was rampant in this country after 9/11 by pushing the threat of WMDs. He took advantage of the fact that people trusted him to take care of us! If anything had actually been found I would not be nearly so upset over this, but the fact that Bush lied to us and took advantage of people's post-9/11 fears for something that was ultimately of little to no gain to the American people -- that scares me, and it worries me that more people are not upset about it.