12-15-2008, 09:06 PM
vision63 wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
[quote=swampy]
Just a little historical perspective. Bush did not 'act alone' or for 'personal gain'. It's not like Iraq had not been warned.
The U.N, like our Congress, acted on the junk intel they were fed, remember? Go ask Colin Powell if he would again stand there in front of the board showing the trucks loaded with who-knows-what now that he knows it was al B.S.
He knew is was B.S. when he was saying it. He thought he was doing his job. That's no excuse for anyone. There was enough real intelligence that confirmed that there were "no" weapons of mass destruction to be found. Enough to not invade. They wanted to invade no matter what and they did. Trucks and pipes. That's not intelligent enough to be intelligence.
There was no proof that Afghanistan had anything to do with 9/11 at the time we invaded them. Even if they did, according to you we must have first taken it up with the UN. You guys can't support the Afghan campaign and then take the high road and claim we can't go around the world and invade countries we don't like or must ask the UN first. Both Iraq and Afghanistan were invasions of sovereign countries.