So the plan to attack Bush on this was hatched where? The DNC?
And the major media was in on it? Yep. I just checked the majors this morning (NY Times, Post, MSNBC)...and they are all subdued on Bush bashing. Talk about group think!
The Senate committe hat it wrong, as well.
Going back to the initial war decision. We can easily assume that almost any American looking at the big picture at the time would have come to the same conclusion. The reason the UN was sarching for WMDs in the first place was because Saddam was defiant, a known liar, and was certainly capable of repeating his past use of WMDs. We didn't trust him and we knew intelligence data are not 100%. So....post 9/11, is it a good idea to let Saddam continue? No.
Next decision. When?
Well, the leader needs to be conservative (100% correct) when it comes to the use of nukes so this decision becomes ASAP.
If we had known conclusively there were WMDs - there would not have been UN inspections, as the situation would have escalated to a "clear and present danger" and the world would have reacted differently. Also, if Hans found WMDs, no one would have been surprised, and again the reaction would have been war. Taking the appeasment road, as with Chamberland and Hitler would be argued, of course, but would fail. Who would listen to the left? They were dead wrong on Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, et al.
I remembered when the WMDs were not found and didn't look like anytime soon, they were going to be found.
I had two reactions: One was I was puzzled as to why Saddam pulled this rope-a-dope. The other was that, now we'd have to listen to the left's whining. Why? Because they'd look at this as a mistake, rather than the correct decision - for purly partisan reasons. If we would have found WMDs - they'd be clammering about something else. Perhaps a prison scandal, or post-war rebuilding problems.
And, now we find out the yellow cake issue was a partisan prank?
Goodness.
What happens when we take real world situations and plunk them into the frantic, frenzied, "the-sky-is-falling," paranoid mind of a liberal? We get panic. We get Michael Moore movies. We get a daily barrage of Bush-is-bad warnings from every media outlet. Bush is blamed. The military is blamed. The CIA is blamed. America is blamed. Conspiracy theories pop out of nowhere. Group think happens overnight. Kerry is God, himself and will save the world.
So now, that the left and the media have been discovered, who will expose them for the voters?
Back to re-read.
Excellent question....
As we know, many have been duped, and it's hard to undo the damage.