WHAT LIES?!?!?!? I ask this all the time. What, exactly, did the President LIE about? Be very careful that you do not regurgitate "facts" presented by CNN et all.... If anything, ALL of out leaders were duped by Saddam.
This war has everything to do with terrorism. Perhaps it did not start out that way, but that is what it is now. What force will prevail? Freedom or Slavery? Like it or not, accept it or not, this conflict is about our way of life vs. another.
Finally, those heros are NOT dying in vain. They are dying to protect our way of life. It is a shame that we still bicker over stuff like this. Why is nobody willing to support difficult things anymore? Are we that spoiled as a people? We CAN win this conflict, but we need to act like we WANT to win.
Bush is definitely guilty of secrecy, distortion, deception and corruption. The administration cherry picked the intelligence on WMDs. One of the biggest lies was that Saddam tried to purchase yellow cake in Niger. They knew that was not true, because Wilson was sent to investigate the matter in 2002. And he found the claims to be groundless. Bush also tried to use the purchase of aluminum tubes as "proof" of a nuclear program, when the tubes purchased were not even suitable to be centrifuges. Bush also lied and said that there was an Al Qaeda training camp in Iraq. CIA analysts disagreed, and were correct.
Habeas corpus died on Bush's watch. There have been repeated violations of the Geneva Convention. Not to mention the violations of civil liberties due to the Patriot Act and the secret surveillance program. Not to mention the Halliburton scandal. Not to mention the $8,597,045,952,743 debt. I also really thank him for slashing funding for education and environmental protection. Thanks a lot! And the veterans he cares about SO MUCH, he cut their health care too. Thanks again! How can you sit here and defend him? I don't get it!
No matter what you claim, Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11 or Al Qaeda. And it didn't have anything to do with the "war on terrorism" UNTIL WE WENT THERE. The whole thing is our creation. We should have minded our own business in the first place. The reason we get so much crap is because we are always sticking out nose where it doesn't belong.
You criticize people for repeating things they heard on CNN when all you do is spout Fox News Bush rhetoric about "fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them here."
Whether you want to hear it or not, the soliders are dying for a war that wasn't necessary at the time. We weren't in any immidiate danger, and they knew that.
And finally... I just have to ask... how is Islamic fundamentalism any worse than Christian fundamentalism in this country?
That's all for now, I have to get ready for work.