On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:28:30 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>"Low information" I guess that would apply not only to voters but to a
>president who goes to war with a country half way around the world to
>rid if of its vast arsenal of WMDS... which never existed.


no no no Dave...he had lots of information...the Military Industrial
Complex needed to flex some muscle...and some mid east "great allies"
wanted the US to attack Saddam to further their aggenda...so
voila...America sent 5,000 Military personnel to get killed for no
good reason...AND NOBODY HAS BEEN PROSECUTED FOR THAT STUPIDITY OF
LEADERSHIP

William

William wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:28:30 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >"Low information" I guess that would apply not only to voters but to a
> >president who goes to war with a country half way around the world to
> >rid if of its vast arsenal of WMDS... which never existed.
>
> no no no Dave...he had lots of information...the Military Industrial
> Complex needed to flex some muscle...and some mid east "great allies"
> wanted the US to attack Saddam to further their aggenda...so
> voila...America sent 5,000 Military personnel to get killed for no
> good reason...

That's all "usenet expert hindsight" speculation.
And for all you Democrats for life, let's not forget Kennedy
and Johnson escalating the Vietnam war in which over 58,000
young Americans died (my generation). Johnson is mostly
responsible, imo, sending in the military to fight with
one hand tied behind their back. Nixon gets some of the blame
too though. He took it down but saved ending it completely
until he won the 2nd election. A political move that cost
more american lives.

On 2016-06-27 7:39 AM, Gary wrote:
> William wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:28:30 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> "Low information" I guess that would apply not only to voters but to a
>>> president who goes to war with a country half way around the world to
>>> rid if of its vast arsenal of WMDS... which never existed.
>>
>> no no no Dave...he had lots of information...the Military Industrial
>> Complex needed to flex some muscle...and some mid east "great allies"
>> wanted the US to attack Saddam to further their aggenda...so
>> voila...America sent 5,000 Military personnel to get killed for no
>> good reason...
>
> That's all "usenet expert hindsight" speculation.
> And for all you Democrats for life, let's not forget Kennedy
> and Johnson escalating the Vietnam war in which over 58,000
> young Americans died (my generation). Johnson is mostly
> responsible, imo, sending in the military to fight with
> one hand tied behind their back. Nixon gets some of the blame
> too though. He took it down but saved ending it completely
> until he won the 2nd election. A political move that cost
> more american lives.
>


Baloney. It is not all usenet hindsight. Bush started ranting about how
countries were either with the US or with the terrorists. Colin Powell
got up in front of the UN Security Council with his Power Point
presentation with some facts, satellite images of trucks and artists
renderings of what mobile and chemical warfare labs might look like. Not
everyone bought into the argument. The argued against the factoids of
the vast arsenal of WMDs and against the wisdom of deposing the guy who
was keeping a lid on radicals at home.

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 08:21:57 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>Baloney. It is not all usenet hindsight. Bush started ranting about how
>countries were either with the US or with the terrorists. Colin Powell
>got up in front of the UN Security Council with his Power Point
>presentation with some facts, satellite images of trucks and artists
>renderings of what mobile and chemical warfare labs might look like. Not
>everyone bought into the argument. The argued against the factoids of
>the vast arsenal of WMDs and against the wisdom of deposing the guy who
>was keeping a lid on radicals at home.
>

This will really rattle your cage Dave...read about a company called
"Haliburton" who was hired by the government to perform various
"services" during the Iraq war...pay careful attention to all current
and former leaders of that company...

and after you read all that just sigh and think about why the American
people let those *******s get away with this shit...

back in Vietnam days...the govmint said the "mighty Vietnamese Navy"
attacked a US Naval Vessel...(Google Tonkin Gulf Incident)...which was
our made up excuse to go to war in Vietnam. It never happened

The top ten defense contractors in the United States wield enormous
power in the US Congress...the "Military Industrial Complex"

William

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 08:21:57 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>
>Baloney. It is not all usenet hindsight. Bush started ranting about how
>countries were either with the US or with the terrorists.

I'll never forget that, I happened be watching the TV at the time.
That remark blew my mind. There was no ambiguity about what was going
on at that point.