On Wed, 6 May 2009 17:36:53 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"jps" wrote in message
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On Wed, 06 May 2009 14:27:22 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Wed, 06 May 2009 14:55:51 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


"Reasons" then and now are two entirely different things. When pressed
for a decision, you have to act on the information you have at the time.
I don't find fault with anyone who does so in good faith, even if they
are found to be in error in history's hindsight.

Except when going to war, you had better be damned sure. "Whoops, sorry",
doesn't cut it to the dead.

It's was vomit inducing to hear the former administration use the
"finish the job" excuse in order to honor those who "paid the ultimate
price."

Finishing the job in this case would be to uphold the law so that
others don't have to pay the ultimate price for lawbreaking liars.


I am very thankful that I never had to rely on you to watch my back.
That's not an insult. It's reality. You are better off doing whatever it
is you do and having the right to think whatever you think and so am I.

Eisboch

The point was that it was a ****ty excuse to stay in Iraq. It was a
doomed escapade from the start. Bush 1 knew it and stayed out.

I'm extremely loyal and, had I been in Iraq watching anyone's back,
I'd have given the full measure of my life.

I'm damned glad that I'm not in that situation and very sorry for
those who are.

Now I want to see justice done. Those that lied us into this
catastrophe should be willing to face the full measure of what it
means to be nation of laws. It was among the things that Bush
promised us when he campaigned for the presidency.