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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You're down to 'Hussein was a bad man.' No WMD. No ties to Al Qaeda. No threat to his neighbors. But Bush won't really acknowledge any of this. You can't pass this test if you can't acknowledge the truth.
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The issue is not whether the war wwas predicated on a lie. The issue is whether having the war over there is better than having it over here. Bush is at a terrible disadvantage because he can't say "I lied because I needed a pretext to take the war off our shores", but that's what he did. All these people ripping Bush for lying (of course he lied) miss the greater point. The lie was needed to make sure that the next battles with AQ take place in AQ's yard, not ours. It is significant that nothing has happened here since 9/11. That is an accomplishment.
You knew it was a lie. I knew it was a lie. The world knew it was a lie. We're past that point. Whats important is "Are you safer now because Bush used the lie to move the war?" I tend to think yes, but I also think AQ is shrewd. bin Laden knows Iraq is a head fake. He's not dicking around with idiots like Zarqawi. He's planning AQ's next attack on our shores.
