On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:23:07 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:



"Urin Asshole" wrote in message
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I think your argument that we should not automatically buy into the
"Bush lied" argument is valid. Unfortunately, he was highly motivated
to get us into this war, and his cabinet and VP were motivated as
well. So, while he may not have lied knowing the full extent of the
bull**** he was proposiing, he certainly was culpable and by any
reasonable definition knew or should have known that it was mostly
bull****. He and his relied on very, very suspect intel and completely
disregarded strong evidence that there was nothing to it.

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I am of the opinion that Bush made a mistake in not listening enough
to Colin Powell instead of Donald Rumsfeld. Their roles should have
been reversed with Colin Powell as Sec of Defense and Rumsfeld as Sec
of State. I think Powell's military background, including being the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff better qualified him to advise
Bush about going to war. Powell was cautious about it. Rumsfeld was
governed by his massive ego.


I tend to agree, but Powell didn't push hard enough and has some
responsibility... sitting in front of the UN and the US population
without a lot good info. Rumsfeld would have been a disaster in any
position.