{"id":135,"date":"2004-10-12T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T16:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-06-28T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T18:31:36","slug":"revisionism-and-the-war-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Revisionism and the war in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revisionism and the war in Iraq<\/strong><\/p>\n

First off, don’t think I speak idly when I talk about the war. My cousin served time in Afghanistan (he’s now training to be a Delta Force member, one certified tough S.O.B.), and I know the importance of security. But, President Bush is driving me nuts.<\/p>\n

First off, we had the rationale for going to war as “Hussein is an imminent threat to the U.S.” That’s been pretty well discredited, even with the most recent weapons inspector reports. However, Bush has seized upon the findings saying that Saddam indeed was trying to restart the W.M.D. programs but couldn’t.<\/p>\n

Why couldn’t he? The U.N. sanctions.<\/p>\n

That’s right, the multinational body imposed sanctions on Saddam that prevented him from being able to restart the programs.<\/p>\n

The big question I have is whether or not the sanctions would have continued to prevent Saddam from building Ws.M.D. had we not rushed into the war. The sanctions were apparently doing their job, but we had to go to war.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it’s a moot issue; we can spend hours talking about it, but we won’t resolve anything, except perhaps the election in November.<\/p>\n

Saddam was a bad guy. He murdered his own people; his sons were horrible torturers, etc. etc. etc. But did we have to rush into war so soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revisionism and the war in Iraq First off, don’t think I speak idly when I talk about the war. My cousin served time in Afghanistan (he’s now training to be a Delta Force member, one certified tough S.O.B.), and I know the importance of security. But, President Bush is driving me nuts. First off, we … <\/p>\n

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