Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: tangent1138
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
A momentary decline in the ratings didn't stop some from implying Bush was wrong after all. If the side you're on is going to dish it out, be prepared to take it when opinions change.
Actually, I don't base my opinions on ratings. Most people, it seems, have short term memories about such things as "WMDs" and "finding Osama dead or alive". It's actually a pretty brilliant move that they've revised history to the point that people are convinced liberating the Iraqi people is why we went in there in the first place. Of course those people never stop to ask "why Iraq?" How about all those dictatorships in Africa? Or, I don't know, Saudi Arabia?... Where large portion of the 9/11 terrorists were from. The irony is that democracy alone won't stop terrorism. We should've learned that from Oklahoma.
Our foray into the ME is not designed to eradicate terrorism. It's designed to weaken it and reduce it drastically. Terrorism will never disappear because there will always be fruitcakes looking for any excuse to be destructive.
As far as the historical revisionism, got any proof that people are convinced the US went into Itaq only for liberation purposes? The revisionism I've seen comes from the left in the insistent claim that WMDs was the ONLY reason given by the admin, when that's not true at all.