BB:

I gotta second Keller on it -- you reversed Kerry's posture on him and then chastised him for a position he never took.

The entire falsehood perpetrated by your right wing friends was that they had to go into Iraq to provide for the common defense. It was not true then. It is true that right now, being waist deep in shit of our own making, so to speak, that we have a probelm in common defense.

Bush had no real grounds for this invasion. He didn't understand Iraq, didn't know the difference between a Sunni and a Hashemite and a sushi, certainly did not understand Hussein's game or his bluffing. He did not know what was on the ground where. He knew none of the things you should know before taking a fight to the enemy's home turf. Why he went ahead was he was in the grip of war-mongers who didn't care, who though brute force would be enough.

Arrogance and assholery of the first order--if not his directly then his by agency.

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