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Originally Posted by Zayphod

No, bad decision. BAD decision. Sit! Staaaaay!

Seriously, the Blair Memo indicated that Bush has a damned powerful desire to finish what the Elder Bush started, and indicated that he'd start something, "even if he had to paint a US plane as a UN aircraft and shoot it down to make it LOOK like 'they' started it.

Afghanestan(sp?), yeah, fully justified, but they should have encircled the country first, rather than sweep the bad guys off to the Pakistani border.

Bush lied about the reason for getting into this war. I believe that's reason for impeachment right there. You lie to keep your wife from smacking you for staying out late. You don't lie about stuff that gets thousands of people killed.

BTW, part of the blame MUST go to Saddam himself. He played poker with a crazy guy who actually called his bluff.

"Yeah, I MIGHT have nukes here, somewhere. I just kicked out a buncha guys who were inspecting for them, but if you invade, you just might find out how many WMD's I have in my back pocket. Maybe I have a pile of them. Maybe I don't."

Don't ever play poker with a crazy guy just looking for an excuse to upset the table and start blastin' away. If Saddam had watched a few more John Wayne movies, he'd have learned himself a lesson there.

Not crazy. He just found himself a good enough excuse and a perfect environment to go do what he wanted (and genuinely believed in, I think) - spread democracy proactively as a way to combat terrorism.

PD