Torie
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« on: June 12, 2008, 01:54:23 PM » |
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There are some pretty perfervid and hyperbolic comments being made about Bush on this thread. I don't approve of the man either, but well, whatever. By the way, I don't think there is any evidence that Bush with mens rea distorted pre-war intelligence as a predicate to war. Indeed, even the French thought Saddam had WMD's. I never thought that WMD's was a sufficient reason to invade myself, because there was no evidence of a clear and immediate threat, requiring immediate action, and Bush never claimed that there was. I favored invading on moral grounds because well, I was not sufficiently informed about Iraq, what kind of place it was, and the intensity of the Shia Sunni internecine hatreds and tensions.
The failure of Bush to be more informed however, is a black mark on his record, and inexcusable. One needs a Swiss watch legal mind to systematically ask the right questions, and a lot of questions, and recognize when the answers are superficial, and demand more. Bush does not have that kind of mind. Who knew?
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