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05/26/2003 Archived Entry: "The rubes are starting to realize they got took..."
The rubes are starting to realize they got took...
When the guys who supported the war start to slowly wake up, you'll start to see more op-eds like this one:
Some of those who supported the war beforehand did so solely on the basis of ending tyranny. The mass graves found throughout Iraq, and widespread stories of torture and atrocity, come as no surprise to those who had studied or endured the Baathist dictator's regime. Those who opposed the war for any reason ought to be doing some soul-searching about the kind of horrors they were prepared to leave in place.But it is true that Hussein represented only one of many thuggish regimes, and that the United States is not about to go to war against them all. I supported this war because I believed Bush and Blair when they said Iraq was manufacturing and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Such weapons in the hands of al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations that shared Hussein's hostile designs made such a threat a defense priority - or so the argument went....
They may yet be found, but it is beginning to look as though the skeptics in this case were right. If so, I was taken in by this administration, and America and Great Britain were led to war under false pretenses....
I trusted Bush, and unless something big develops on the weapons front in Iraq soon, it appears as though I was fooled by him. Perhaps he himself was taken in by his intelligence and military advisers. If so, he ought to be angry as hell, because ultimately he bears the responsibility.
It suggests a strain of zealotry in this White House that regards the question of war as just another political debate. It isn't. More than 100 fine Americans were killed in this conflict, dozens of British soldiers, and many thousands of Iraqis. Nobody gets killed or maimed in Capitol Hill maneuvers over spending plans, or battles over federal court appointments. War is a special case. It is the most serious step a nation can take, and it deserves the highest measure of seriousness and integrity.
When a president lies or exaggerates in making an argument for war, when he spins the facts to sell his case, he betrays his public trust, and he diminishes the credibility of his office and our country. We are at war. What we lost in this may yet end up being far more important than what we gained.
Replies: 4 people speak up
Blah, your thread suggests that the American people are merely asleep and will "slowly wake up." Did you ever consider that many of them are in a coma?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 05/27/2003 12:30 PM NY
this kind of thing should spread like wildfire, also the realization that Bush's economic policy is nothing more than a ploy (http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0527-04.htm) by the neo-cons to destroy the federal budget and therefore axe social programs--take us back to the dark ages, in short...people are not stupid, but the more we shake them the faster they will wake up...
Posted by Jonathan @ 05/28/2003 01:24 AM NY
Why would anyone have believed a single word he said after stealing the White House? Why would anyone awake not se the absolute evil of this pResident after the Ashcroft appointment? Asleep? Try lazy and stupid. sheeple, as it were.
Posted by Ronjazz @ 05/29/2003 08:10 AM NY
It is now a case of closing the barn door after the horse is out. Our economic outlook is totally cooked, and the fools who thought they would get a pittance, now have discovered that they and their destitute friends will once again get the Golden Weenie while that fat cats scoop up the bucks with their exemptions on their dividends and Hummer write offs. We truly are a nation of functional illiterates without the ability to see who's busy screwing us to death.
Posted by Dave @ 05/31/2003 10:18 PM NY
