The hypocracy continues

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

MBC - surely you can't be serious? 12 years of cease fire violations, over a dozen UN resolutions unabided by.....no patience?

Here's my point. I'm not convinced that the sanctions weren't working. The lack of WMD's suggests to me that Saddam was disarming. It doesn't take too much of an imagination to understand why he might not be too keen on telling that to everyone. Is it smart to announce to your enemies that you aren't the threat that they think you are? I know you think that everything is sitting in Syria. We'll find out soon enough when we invade them. My guess is when we don't find them, someone will suggest that they were moved somewhere else. The fact is, we said we knew exactly where they were but somehow, we couldn't keep an eye on them long enough to make sure that they stayed in Iraq? I don't buy it.

And if you don't have those weapons or any proof that they were moved, even though you justified an invasion because of it, how do you tell that to all of the people who have lost loved ones who have died there. How do you explain to them that we absolutely had to go in there immediately because we had no other option? There are always options and any option that could have spared the lives of our soldiers or of countless innocent bystanders should have been exercised. That is what I refer to when I speak of patience, making sure that you use our troops ONLY as a last resort. I don't think that was the case here at all.

This president used our troops to move ahead an agenda, not because we were in any forseeable danger. That is unacceptable to me and I refuse to believe that our absolute only option was war.