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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think you're saying that you're OK with the President lying to scare people into a war with Iraq if we're in a different war on global terror. But that seems stupid to me, so I thought I'd give you a chance to try to make it sound better.
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No, it means I support the Administration (and Congress who supported the administration) when a decision is made to engage one of the many potential appropriate battlefields in the War on Terror and I don't second guess the battlfield strategy on a micromanaging basis. There was no scare tactic. The previous administration had already identified the danger Saddam's Iraq posed and there are plenty of quotes from President Clinton regarding the threat. Further, the former Co-President, in her role as Senator Incitatus, supported going to war in Iraq. It was a good decision. I knew at the time it would be a long haul, and perhaps tougher than some of the optimistic projections. In reality, it has proven to be about as tough as I thought it would be, but I think it was the right decision and stand firm in supporting the mission to its logical end. Victory. I look forward to traveling to Baghdad in 2016 or so, and enjoying some nice Iraqi wine whilst sitting al fresco at a Cafe along the Rue de George W. Bush.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Interestingly, it turns out that we were in the global war on terror during the Clinton Administration as well, but Republicans like yourself didn't want to believe it, so you chose not to support the Commander-in-Chief during wartime. For example, you guys refuse to believe that Clinton had legitimate reasons to launch those cruise missiles at Sudan and Afghanistan.
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He should have come clean with the American people that we were at war and what the danger was, instead of worrying about getting his weinie whistled while Gorelick erected her Anti-intelligence wall. Also, maybe when he had the chance to take bin Laden off of Sudan's hands he should have. And further, shooting cruise missiles into a camel's behind and/or a baby aspirin factory is meaningless fluff. If he wanted to be treated like a war time president, he should have acted like one, instead of acting like a porn star. And the perjury thing and presenting false affidavits to a federal judge were a little off too.
