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Quote by: xyzer The war..and subsequent occupation..was/is based on the constitutionally approved methods of our governance. This included discussion and affirmative vote by our legislators at the national level. In case the impatient antiwar protestors didn't bother to check a very small % voted against it. These Representatives and Senators were privy to the same intelligence data(some call it lies) that the President was. Intelligence services worldwide also believed these "lies" you refer to. By the way intelligence estimates that don't subsequently prove to be valid are not lies? Truth changes as information and events change!
The truth is what we believe from whats before us at the time. If you told a friend what you are now reading and found out next week that xyzer didn't make this post  would you have lied to your friend?
By the way since when were tens of thousands of Iraqis killed by the US? The thousands of civilian casualties I read about are from Iraqi and other Muslim suicide bombers and indiscriminately placed mines, bombs and booby traps. Are we getting the same news. |
The Bush administration's phony intel has now been pretty well documented. Doug Feith's Office of Special Projects did nothing but cobble together false intel, all of which has been proven wrong. And one of his staff has been charged as an Isreali spy.
The Lie Factory Douglas Jay Feith
Your ignorance of civilian deaths isn't surprising either. The best estimates are that over 10,000 were kiled in the intitial invasion, mostly by US bombing. Estimates of current deaths range from 26,000 to over 100,000 depending on whose figures you believe.
Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq Surveys pointing to high civilian death toll in Iraq