re: #162 Decatur Deb

The refuseniks were right then, and are right now.

As I’ve said a couple of times, if the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its own people then I’m in full support of going all the way to get rid of them.

There’s an ‘if’ in there I need to unpack.

It bothers me that there are a couple of points in the evidence chain where the US government is saying, “Trust us. It’s classified or we’d show you, so just trust us.” See, in 2001 and even as late as 2003 I accepted that. Grumbled, complained, but overall trusted. After the exposure of how thorough the lies were I lost that trust. And while the people at the top may be different the next layer down, the one that put all those lies together, haven’t changed. (well, barring promotions and retirements.)

So I want independent confirmation, or I want that ‘trust us’ exposed. Because I know from personal experience exactly what the price may be, and I do not want more family and/or friends of family or even my fellow citizens to pay the price of war if war was not necessary.