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| darkknight109 09/11/18 9:35:12 PM #67: | dancer62 posted... Bush and Obama proved it's dangerous to have a president, one by declaring war on Iraq, the other by declaring war on the police OK, so, I'm not going to pretend that the Iraq war was anything other than a massive piece of idiocy that went a long way towards destroying the US global hegemony, but can we please drop the myth that this was Bush and only Bush? Bush sought - and received - Congressional approval for the war, with 69% approval in the House of Representatives and 77% approval in the senate. Lest you think this was a purely Republican fuck-up, a majority of Democratic senators approved of the war. All this would be easy to pin on "the elites", but everyone is very quick to forget how keen the public was on the war. At the time, 70% of the American public were in favour of the Iraq war - the politicians were very accurately representing their constituents wishes. There's a lot of blame to go around for the Iraq war, and Bush certainly earned a large chunk of it, but this was far from "the president forced a war on everyone that no one else supported". --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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