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• Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:21 PM

  Please

  You have a right to your rather wordy opinion. But I still don't know why we invaded Iraq. Neither does anyone else it seems. So if you have the goods (why we invaded Iraq), please do tell.

  Is it because Saddam was a butcher? I beleive the U.S. was quite willing to deal with him in the past despite this. Rumsfeld was over there shaking his hand back in the day. We didn't seem too concerned about his pesky atrocities until Bush II got into office. Is he a bad guy? Yeah. Did he have WMD? No. Was he even close to the biological weapons capacities used to fearmonger us into this unbeleivably costly war? No. Did we have an exit strategy? No. The powers that be couldn't committ enough troops because they thought this would be a walk in the park despite what generals told them.

  Face it, this administration has blamed everyone and demoted anyone who didn't/doesn't agree with them. They do what they want to without any oversight from a cowed Congress and Senate. I would feel that you were more genuine if you had a little angst about all the shenanigans that got us into this war. It does seem to be serving the President well in that he is able to constantly use it to scare the crap out of us.

  If you aren't brave enough to stare at the hard, cold reality of what has been done in our name, then you have no leg to stand on to be offended by Salon showing the photos of our troops torturing prisoners. I am frankly way more offended that people like you think it's Salon's lack of integrity instead of an utter lack of integrity of our present leaders. It isn't the media coverage or dissenting voices making our troops less safe. It's idiotic decisions of leaders who do not have the courage to go to war themselves, but will committ troops to a war based on greed. I hope you sleep well at night knowing Haliburton is getting rich.

  BTW, bringing Clinton into this conversation was a stretch.

  —Lisa
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