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Originally Posted by spence
I think he's earned the right to speak his mind...and the message isn't that complicated...he feels as though he's been betrayed.
No wonder he's so angry, if I felt that way I'd be too.
-spence
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Of course he has earned the right to speak his mind. However, he has not earned the right to lie. The guy said that Bush started the war out of a thirst for wealth and power. There's precisely zero evidence of that. Zip. Bupkus.
The guy called Bush a war criminal. If Bush is a war criminal, aren't all the democrats who voted for the war (and that's a LONG list of prominent democrats, including the next democratic presidential nominee, Hilary) also war criminals? Aren't the leaders of all the other countries who sent troops to Iraq, war crinminals as well? Why were none of these people tried at the Hague?
Which law did Bush break that makes him a war criminal? At the end of the first Gulf War, as part of the cease-fire, Hussein agreed to give the weapons inspectors unfettered access. He repeatedly violated that. Bush warned him again and again and again and again. If Bush wanted to invade just to get rich, why would he have given Hussein so many opportunities to comply with the treaty?
There's lots of valid, sane reasons to criticize Bush for his handling of the war. Saying he did it to get rich is crazy, and reaks of political motivation.
I pray that vet gets the help he needs. His letter sounds about as rational as the Unibomber's manifesto. Bush has an 'empty character'? Again, tell that to the 1,000,000+ Africans who are alive today because of Bush's Emergency Plan For Aids Relief. Tell that to the unborn, who never had a better advocate in the Oval Office. Tell that to the little girls in Iraq who can, thanks to this vet and his commander-in-chief, now go to school and make something of themselves, and who can now vote in free elections.