Honor Roll

[DeadCanDance]

Honor Roll of some of those who were right about Iraq

Former President George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, explaining in 1998 why they didn’t go on to Baghdad in 1991: “Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.”

Barack Obama, September 2002: “I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne. I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors...and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars."

Representative Nancy Pelosi, October 2002: “When we go in, the occupation, which is now being called the liberation, could be interminable and the amount of money it costs could be unlimited.”

Senator Russ Feingold, October 2002: “I am increasingly troubled by the seemingly shifting justifications for an invasion at this time. … When the administration moves back and forth from one argument to another, I think it undercuts the credibility of the case and the belief in its urgency. I believe that this practice of shifting justifications has much to do with the troubling phenomenon of many Americans questioning the administration’s motives.”

Representative Ike Skelton, September 2002: “I have no doubt that our military would decisively defeat Iraq’s forces and remove Saddam. But like the proverbial dog chasing the car down the road, we must consider what we would do after we caught it.”

Al Gore, September 2002: “I am deeply concerned that the course of action that we are presently embarking upon with respect to Iraq has the potential to seriously damage our ability to win the war against terrorism and to weaken our ability to lead the world in this new century.”

Representative John Spratt, October 2002: “The outcome after the conflict is actually going to be the hardest part, and it is far less certain.”

Howard Dean, February 2003: “I firmly believe that the president is focusing our diplomats, our military, our intelligence agencies, and even our people on the wrong war, at the wrong time. … Iraq is a divided country, with Sunni, Shia and Kurdish factions that share both bitter rivalries and access to large quantities of arms.”

 

[maineman]

Honor Roll of some of those who were right about Iraq

and they were ALL so right... which only serves to highlight how profoundly WRONG the current batch of republicans has been.

Time to take the fucking keys away.

 

[Gunny]

and they were ALL so right... which only serves to highlight how profoundly WRONG the current batch of republicans has been.

Time to take the fucking keys away.

Oh yeah, and give them to Obama or Hillary? Hell, y'all might as well be running that dimwit Carter along with them.

 

[maineman]

Oh yeah, and give them to Obama or Hillary? Hell, y'all might as well be running that dimwit Carter along with them.

Obama will do fine. just you wait and see!

 

[Gunny]

Obama will do fine. just you wait and see!

No he won't, and I don't want to see. I don't want to suffer through that political moron's crap.

Hopefully, you bandwagon riders will get a good dose of reality prior to voting for him. Wait ... what am I saying?

 

[Paulie]

Don't forget Dick Cheney:

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What, no more embedding?