The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

we'd be there regardless of who was President or from which party

You always say that and I always disagree completely. No other President would have spent their entire administration, literally from day one, looking for an excuse to go into Iraq (documented fact that this is exactly what happened). Sorry, we're in Iraq solely because George Walker Bush and his inner circle wanted us to be in Iraq. Whatever his reasons were (revenge, oil, actually believed they were a threat), they were HIS reasons and other than Dick Cheney, no one else would have lead us along this path. Without the filter of the Bush administration constantly and desperately hunting for any shred of a reason to invade, there was no rational justification.