Originally posted by caltour:

Originally posted by JaTo:
First, Bush and his staff kept pushing a peaceful UN route all the way up to the invasion. They kept offering Husssein outs; Hell, they even offered an ultimatum that put forth exile as an option that would stave off invasion.


I don't follow your logic here, either. What difference does it make that Bush didn't start the war for a while before he started it? If someone is charged with murder, since when is it a defense to say "But I didn't kill anyone for many years before I killed that guy." Man, you are really grasping at straws here.



So, you're willing to just hurl empty threats at a mass murderer?

Oh, wait, you live in CA, where the entire justice system seems to do the same- Robert Blake, OJ, and MJ come to mind.

What part of UN sanctions do you not understand? Iraq stated that they were in posession of materials with which to generate chem/bio weapons. The problem THE WORLD HAD was that they would not account for what was NOT there, and they refused to. Is that NOT suspicious to you at all?

Let me bring this entire argument back on point.

If 12 of your peers, colleagues, friends, and coworkers came to you with the EXACT same information on something, would you not believe it, and with good reason? Would you not believe what you are told to be true, thus try to bring others' attention to it? That's exactly what happened here. Bush put forth the recommendation on information brought to him by the world's intel, as well as Hussein's refusal to comply with a UN (United NATIONS, NOT the GOP, Not President Bush, just making sure you remember who the guys in the blue hemlets work for) sanction to explain his capabilities and to account for missing materiel, which he refused.

We would not be in the position we are in, nor would Iraq, had Hussein come forward with whatever information he had on where his WMD gear went. Hussein is the one to thank for us being in the position we're in, NOT Bush.

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