Some people are still defending this fucking war and the information?
*mind blows*
Good luck to humanity.
That's a great way to put it.
But the only ones really defending Bush are the ones who know little about the situation (eg. Oli thinking that British intelligence was actually solid, when during the time it was given it was found to be faked). And Hoahmaru who didn't know about the Americans leaving for Canada to avoid service. In time, I hope, these people will be educated on the issues.
Hopefully this analogy will help (for people like Oli)...imagine yourself being accussed of possessing drugs and it's considered a crime. The first accusation comes from the Police Chief himself. Sources to the police tell the police that they have evidence.
One of which is that you had this little rice capsule you stuck up your butt. Police medical staff question that evidence, since they feel it would melt due to the heat of your scrotum. Ok, this is getting sick, but I have to demonstrate a point, in fact, all this talk of scrotum would make this understandable to people like TPO.
Anyways, because of these sources, the police issue a search warrent. So the police search your home, your car, and everything they can think of. During the searches, it was found that one of the sources made up the whole story about you having drugs. Despite that, the searches continue. The Chief is still adament that you have these drugs, and rather than allowing more searches to continue, decides to arrest you.
So your home is ransacked, and you are held in prison. While in prison, it is found that you did not have any drugs. You are let go.
Of course, this would not occur in the US prior to the Patriot Act. And I think you'd agree that in this hypothetical situation, what the Police did was wrong. In the same way, I feel that what Bush did was wrong.
You can try to bring up Saddam's history, but that is besides the point, that doesn't change the process of disarming a nation as per treaty. There are many other WORSE dictators, and in Sudan right now the UN estimates that 50,000 people have died. And this is just recently, not 20 years ago.
At the very least, you have to admit that Bush owes Americans an apology. Even based on the assumption that he was screwed by his intelligence agencies, he should apologize. To deny that goes beyond and below the line of human decency.
If I wronged YOU, despite having good intentions and doing so based on false information, I would still apologize. If I heard that your dad was planning to hijack a plane, and then I killed him, and then found out that my decision was based on false information, I'd apologize. No question.
ROFL, sorry I just found that funny.