re: #103 Political Atheist
Unlike some out there, I don’t conflate Iraq and Afghanistan. I fully support our attacks and ongoing nation building efforts in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan made sense. The Taliban were shielding Osama bin Laden and the AQ leadership, who attacked us. I get that, and I supported that war.
Iraq was total bullshit from top to bottom, and nothing will ever justify it in my mind. We were lied to from the start, and a big part of the huge deficits that conservatives are bitching about now come DIRECTLY from this clusterfuck of a revenge fantasy that Dubya led us into.
I said at the time again and again-Those weapons better be there or else. To my extreme dismay and shock-They were not there. We fucked up.
Those weapons were never going to be there. Ever. It was all a lie from the word go to gin up a fake war. I can’t believe that anyone thought those weapons would legitimately be there.
Again — I don’t get any pleasure out of the fact that the anti-war argument was the correct one. But still, I can’t understand how anyone fell for that bullshit in the first place.