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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
What to do about continuing sanctions that aren't working and when an ultimatum is issued and ignored. A tough question for everyone, not just the Bush admin. And it was quite the bipartisan thing to think there were WMDs in Iraq.
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It's odd to me that you would say that the continuing sanctions weren't "working," since we now know that they were working pretty well, especially in contrast to the mess we've made.
And it's a particularly strange thing to defend a disastrous foreign policy by saying that it was bi-partisan. Of course, the Clinton Administration followed a very different policy. This suggests that many of the Democrats you quoted either did not agree with what Bush did, and felt the political need to get some cover, or have been quoted out of context. Assuming the former, one might worry about what is wrong with our country that pushed us to such a disastrous policy, instead of suggesting that the disaster can't be so bad because there were Democrats who went along with it.
