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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] Pardon the lag for getting to this...we�re selling our house and have accompanying maintenance, buying another house and have tough negotiations, and our baby is due in November. I have had to spend my intellectual capital countering real life arguments and problems. At any rate, this: [QUOTE]Here are the justifications properly stated again....[/QUOTE]If I haven�t stated it in plain language before, I�ll do so now. I don�t believe the Mr. Bush and his Administration in their post-pre-emptive invasion justifications. I look at the cited points as the line of spin they are. And even if they were true and they are no good praise for the Mr. Bush and his Administration in that they [i]chose[/i] not to be forthright and honest with the American people. They [i]chose[/i] how to present their case to the American people and it wasn�t the democracy bringing, humanitarianism of the current line of justification. There is a simple reason why Mr. Powell and the WMD argument and stole the show, and that�s because the Administration [i]wanted[/i] Mr. Powell and the WMD argument to steal the show. The Administration [i]chose[/i] to put the face of fear on their pre-emptive invasion plans. [i]They[/i] made national security and fear the issue and [i]they[/i] put these thing front and center in the public reasoning for pre-emptive invasion. I think it is dishonest for the Administration and its defenders to now say something like: 'oh, look at these other reasons to invade', when the Administration purposefully chose not to speak to the public about them before the invasion. Instead, the Administration tried to, and did, scare the crap out of the population with half-truths, insinuations about Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, overplaying the danger Iraq and those nonexistent UAV�s posed to the national security of the United States. What played from the White House, pre-pre-emptive invasion, was a permanent chorus of Saddam Hussein was a bad man who gassed his own people who had drones that could target the United Sates with WMD. However, a greater indictment of the present line of spin is reality. What�s been created is a single use foreign policy...the Bic disposable razor of foreign policy...a get Saddam policy, with good sounding justifications that should, if they were justly and evenly enforced as foreign policy should be, be used to promote democracy, ease the suffering of people around the world, prevent other countries from obtaining WMD. In that each cited justification there are real world examples that cry out to be taken care of through the auspices of the foreign policy laid out Mr. Bush. And yet they are not. North Korea gets a shrug... Who knows what�s happening with Iran... The Darfur situation gets called a genocide and then nothing gets done about it... Russia lays a smack-down on democracy and the United States does nothing... Afghanistan is so unstable that when Hamid Karzai leaves Kabul, it�s headline [URL=http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6333569&src=rss/worldNews§ion=news]news[/URL]... So this line that we are in Iraq for peace, love, and democracy is, in my opinion pure spin. My guess, with no evidence to support it, is that once WMD weren�t found, Administration polling said the next best thing is going with the democracy bringing angle. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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