the rewriting of history continues apace

[rone]

"I want you to keep focused on what you are doing here," [Condoleezza] Rice told the diplomats and troops who gathered in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. "This war came to us, not the other way around."

Fuck you, you lying hag.

Comments

[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

If by "the damn thing" you mean the war, then you and I are in the same boat. I am a Bush voter who tentatively supported the war because I believed he had the goods he claimed to have. I didn't believe that Bush would be willing to destroy the credibility of the America, the Presidency, and the Republican Party by betting a war on a shaky gamble. I gave himt the benefit of the doubt, and he couldn't have burned me any worse if he'd dropped napalm on my house.

[agentelrond.livejournal.com]

Oh, see, I never put a huge amount of faith in the threat to our country bit about Saddam. I just felt he was an utter tyrant who needed to be shown the door. (It didn't hurt that my family is/was friends with a Kurdish family who saw friends and family killed by that motherfucker.)
I consider myself a strong supporter of human rights, even if it happens to fit in with Republican aims, but I'm a moderate-liberal Dem.

[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

Saddam was a tyrant, true. Whether Saddam needed to be shown the door because of this is something that Congress needed to decide on those merits, NOT the fiction that the Bush Administration invented.

Let's say you need a new car because your old car is a piece of crap. And I have a car that I'm trying to get you to buy. I can tell you what an piece of crap I think your old car is, and I can tell you how nice my new car is, but I can't simply invent lies ("your old car will explode tomorrow!" "my car gets 5000 miles per gallon!") to convince you to buy my car - even if I genuinely believe that you need a new car.

[agentelrond.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with what you're saying. And I don't support the use of false (or, at best, mistaken) information to push for a war.
I'm just saying that I supported it, from the very beginning, for the reasons the Bush Admin started using when it turned out their original justifications didn't hold water.
And I had made the absolutely ABSURD assumption that they had concrete PLANS for what to do once they'd brought down the government besides, ya know, being greeted with flowers and gifts by the entire country.