Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Confrontational
That might just be becaue WMDs were not the sole reason for going after them...
Because no WMDs have been found - that is your simplistic way to turn to appeasement and suggest we should not be there at all...
|
Well, that there is just one of those head scratchers you come up with there Confrontational.
1. WMD's were the sole reason on which the public was sold on going to war with Iraq. Sure there were more obtuse and self serving reasons which were probably the actual reasons for going but the public would have never agreed with letting out folks go over there and die for any other reason than WMD's.
2. Basically you are saying that everything the elder Bush did (you know, the President Bush that history WILL look upon kindly) including invading Iraq, embargoing Iraq, destroying Iraq's ability to develop WMD's, removing Iraq from Kuwait, establishing "no fly zones", removing Saddam as a threat to his neighbors was "appeasement"? Seems like the only evidence of anything that we found in Iraq was that the policies that the Old Man Bush had put into place were indeed effective and seem to evoke the term "containment" a heck of alot more than "appeasement". But then you'd never know that by getting all of your information from Rush Limbaugh now would you?