Bush didn't lie, can't you get that talking point out of your head?
I isn't a lie. I is an accepted fact of history. It became facts of history when years after the invasion and occupation of Iraq, claims that were made were proven to be false. Bush claimed in his State of the Union Address following 9/11 that Iraq was aiding and protecting al Qaeda. That has proven beyond any doubt to have been a lie. He might not have connected Saddam to 9/11, but he claimed Saddam was in collusion with the terrorist group that was.
The main reason we went to war was because Saddam refused to comply with un resolutions. Bush gave Saddam plenty of time to comply. Saddam lied, so he died.
That did not make war necessary.
So you like to draw imaginary red lines and do nothing when they are crossed? Another reason we are the laughing stock of the world under Obama.
1. I don't want Americans dying in unnecessary wars. You do realize Americans died in Iraq, right? You talk as if you don't.
2. North Korea has been violating ceasefire agreements since the '50's.
YOU do realize that a Harvard study showed that when encouraging words like these were used the terrorists were (their words not mine!!) "emboldened"!
The Harvard Study asked:
THE EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
And these statements which idiots like YOU most likely agreed with did everything in the world to encourage recruit and reward the terrorists to continue.
Senator Kerry (D)
"American soldiers going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children."
NOTE: You are not that naive to think the terrorists didn't find Kerry calling OUR TROOPS terrorists absolutely EMBOLDENING???
Remember Kerry EARLIER wanted Bush to: "Without a question, we need to disarm Saddam. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ....
to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ....
"Kerry , Jan. 23. 2003
U.S. Rep. John Murtha(D)
"Our troops killed innocent civilians in cold blood,”
NOTE: Do you not believe the terrorists LOVED to hear our troops were cold blooded killers???
Durbin (D) "must have been done by Nazis, Soviets"--action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
then Senator Obama said "
troops are air-raiding villages and killing civilians,"
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D) "
The war is lost, the surge is not accomplishing anything "
You can't convince me that the TERRORISTS were emboldened and encouraged and recruited more terrorists!
After all you idiots that bring up Abu Ghraib as a prime motivator for terrorists recruitment... HOW MUCH more with idiots like the above making those
terrible disgusting statements calling our troops "civilian killers"... "terrorists"!