LittleBuzzSaw
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I do understand, and we don't have to agree. Thank you for the kind words.Look, bub. I'm not totally without heart. I understand you and your fellows in arms served your country in Iraq and no doubt saw plenty enough horrors, for which you are owed a debt of gratitude for your service. I understand your need to believe it a worthwhile endeavor. To be sure, Hussein was a despot and a dictator. And yes one can argue a number of reasons justifying action against him though it can equally be argued that the war has had a destabilizing effect on the region, the consequences of which are quite evident today.
I get all of that.
The POINT is, Bush and Blair deliberately LIED to their respective legislative bodies and to the public about WMD's for the purposes of getting support for the invasion.
As for the rest of that crap you've spewed, my take on it, my observations on your motives, and conclusions about the mentality to which you subscribe, remains UNCHANGED.
Anyone who comes here to raise baseless questions about Obama's lack of patriotism and Americanism, to the exclusion of ALL others, pretty much shows ME who and WHAT he/she is.
But I don't see how anyone could say that Bush and Blair deliberately lied: they made reasonable assumptions based on facts available at the time, which unfortunately yielded inaccurate results. 15 nations at the UN came to the same conclusions when presented with the same dossiers. 48 nations supported us with troops or logistics. Pretty much the entire civilized world believed he had nukes (even though he didn't, he was only 2 years from procurement, and many experts have verified that). When the weapons inspectors were kicked out in '98, they had physically seen thousands of chemical weapons and he admitted to having sarin and VX. The reports unfortunately pointed to something that didn't materialize. Sometimes the best intel in the world isn't enough. At the very minimum, the action liberated a country advancing human rights; but its odd how comfortable a people were (so to speak) under a sadistic dictator because those factions have been fighting secretarian violence for thousands of years.
As far as Obama is concerned, I have zero respect for anyone, especially a President when he doesn't face the flag or properly salute it, and it angers me when he won't pay proper respect while the National Anthem is being played. He has vilified our police officers, stuck his nose in law enforcement investigations while trying to make martyrs of criminals and thugs, and some of my friends in the military who have met him in person say his disdain for our service members is almost palpable, regardless of what he says on camera.