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It could be argued that initating a scenario that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands, probably over a hundred thousand people makes the finding of WMDs an important point.
Imagine a medium size town in the united states stacked with bodies like cord wood for a good visual.
Revisionist history aside, the primary reason given to the American people was the possibility of imminent mass death bv chemical or biological munitions given by Iraw to terrorists.
Now personally, I'm all about the USA kicking ass and taking names. As long as we win, almost anything is forgiveable.
You want to depopulate Denmark next week because they have a violent muslim population? Well as long as I don't have to fight, my quality of life isn't directly affected, and we win decisively . .. have at it hoss.
Damn . . offer me some direct profit and I'll start the war myself.
However, those of us that are arguing for the war based upon the premises promoted by the Admnistration are on shaky ground.
Not because those arguments don't have validity. Its that those arguments don't have enough impeteus to be an obvious goad to war.
And the clincher, the reason that gave teeth to the proposal, the infamous WMD's proved not to exist.
I find the argument that the intention or ghost-like possibility of WMDs justified our killing of tens of thousands of people to be both disturbing and . . well . . stupid.
Imagine having a pedophile in your neighborhood that lives there with an locator anklet. Your child goes missing. You assume he abducted her. So you go in all commando style and burn his house down wiping him and his familty out, only to find that your kid just forgot to tell you she was staying at her friends.
Some situations go beyond "my bad." Or, he was a piece of shit anyway, so even though I was wrong, the neighborhood is a better place now that i killed him and his family and torched his house.
So i think we need to stick with a simple argument: We did it because we could do it, and we wanted to do it, and no one could stop us. If you don't like it . . well Fuck You. IF you stick with this, no one can refute you.
"America, Fuck Yeah"
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