"The film Fahrenheit 9-11 is overlong and lacks narrative drive in parts but it does contain some devastating passages of anti-Bush vitriol. One example is the series of clips showing how the US president tricked his country into war with a web of deception about Iraqi WMDs and links to Bin Laden. In a brilliantly edited section, Bush is shown on the stump in 2002 using the words “Saddam” and “al-Qaida” over and over again."
I didn't know that one could vitriol oneself. Gosh darn Bush anti-Bush vitrioled himself.
"As his attitude to international diplomacy would suggest, Jones is no dove, but he is smart enough to know a quagmire when he sees one, and sensible enough to put some distance between him and it."
OG I'm surprised at you. Just because an obvious idiot such as Jones calls to pull out of Iraq does not prove that he's gotten more smart and sensible, it just proves that even obvious idiots are having doubts about ethics of the war. Eh c'est quoi au juste ton probleme avec les 'french fries', M. Jones? As for being worried about being beaten by his political rivals, I don't think that political strategy is what Jones has in mind given that his district is one of the most militarized in the country, if not the most. There are three Marine bases : 43,000 military and 5,000 civilians at Camp Lejeune in Onslow County; Cherry Point is the world's largest Marine Corp air station and Craven County's largest employer, and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base employs around 4,000 military and 500 civilians in Wayne County. Maybe Mr. Jones is just fed up of going to funerals, in any case he'll have more time to do the rounds now that his political career is over.
"Would the Americans who voted for war in 2002 have done so if they knew the consequences of this conflict, not just for Iraq, but for the US?"
Many Americans would argue that people don't vote for war, they vote for wartime leaders. The terror offensive had already begun way before 2002. Your not feeling the force, OG.
"To top it all of, just to really sicken those who were hooting and hollering for Bush back in 2002, there were no WMDs and no link between Saddam and al-Qaida."
OG tell the democrats, they were the ones to start the Saddam-al-Qaeda rumor. The Dems also helped spread the WMD thing (wittingly or not) "Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations."
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, February 5, 2003
