Impeach Obama

[DeistPaladin]

I think the intelligence both presidents depended on was flawed.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

There was no "bad intelligence" that led us to war in Iraq.

By 2004, we already had the Yellow Cake story and W was still repeating the same debunked lies in his RNC speech. In later years, other evidence of his administration's deceptions had surfaced, including the Downing Street Memo. So yes, we really can prove W Bush lied.

Now even knowing this, I still supported the war for a couple of reasons:
1. We've had been in a quasi war with Iraq since 1991 and that needed to stop.

...and that was a cause of war why?

2. Saddam was a monster that we helped to create. We had a moral responsibility to remove him....even at the expense of shedding our own blood.

...and the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. I'm sure they're so grateful.

3. I thought the middle east would be a much better place with a democratic Iraq....and still think this.

How's that working for them?

Put bluntly, much of the Middle East isn't ready for democracy. Democracy can't co-exist with religious fanaticism. It can only exist in a secular environment or at least one in which religion is sufficiently watered down. Where religious fanaticism is present, the people will just vote themselves a theocracy.