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• Thursday, December 4, 2008 06:43 AM

  @Groenhagen

  Groenhagen: "Blair was the only one to join Bill Clinton's coalition of two against Iraq in December 1998, but it's not nice to call Clinton and Blair names. I'm sure they really believed Saddam had WMD when they launched the preemptive strike known as Operation Desert Fox. Unfortunately, they were busy do that and the illegal war of chouce in Kosovo at the very same time the 9/11 Commission report tells us that bin Laden and al Qaeda were planning 9/11."

  Your point being what? And what does 9/11 have to do with Iraq again?

  Nobody is disputing that Saddam Hussein wasn't a huge thorn in everybody's side for quite some time.

  They're disputing whether the Iraq war, as carried out by Bush and his team of half-wits, was a bad, corrupt and otherwise tragic decision. It was.

  So what's your point again? That you're smarter than somebody else? Or that you can't be bothered to confront reality if it doesn't make you feel good about your political leaning?

  Thanks for your trite history lessons. You really earned that award of yours.

  While you were doing your research, what did you learn about how Saddam Hussein came into power to begin with? What did you learn about how he came into possession of WMD, and what the U.S.'s response was to his use of it?

  What did you learn about Clinton's policy of containment, which, although flawed, proved to be 1,000 times preferable to Bush's policy of invasion and occupation?

  When will you deserve another gold star?

  —Xrandadu Hutman Read Xrandadu Hutman's other letters
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