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MY concernw ith the war in Iraq is not that the war itself wasn't justified. My concern is that my elected eladers deceived me for their reasons to fight the war.
I fully understand and subscribe to the list in smilingassasin's post.
But, we cannot get away fromt he fact that a coalition was formed to defeat a clearl and present threat to the security of the free world posed by Saddam's massive arsenal of WMD. We cannot get away from the fact that the WMD arguement was the one pushed through the UN. We cannot get away fromt he fact that your poltiical leaders, chose to ignore the evidence from the UN weapon inspectors. Tehy decided to abandon the UN (and thus seriously damage it).
We cannot get away fromt eh fact that the coalition heaped such ire on the French, and yet now we know that the coalition leaders were deceiving us!
Perhaps it was an unintentional deceit. That we await to see. Perhaps the arrogance of the US/UK led railroading of the UN will come back to haunt them or perhaps we will find out why everyone got it wrong. This cannot be allowed to happen again, hundreds of coaltiions troops have died, thousands of Iraqi civilians have died, dozens of non-military support people (such as UN) have died. The death toll is greater than 9/11.
I have no problem with deposing Saddam, but i have a problem with my government deceiving me (or in my case trying to as i never bought the WMD argument).
As for "pre-judging" OBL. Well good on Dean. He stood up for the values of his society and didn't just pander to the lynch mob mentality. His comments showed that he respected the rule and principle of law. Something most people would normally commend in a poltiical leader.
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