“It will always be a part of my record (Iraq). It was painful. It’s painful now.”?

Question

This was a statement made by the former secretary of State for the USA. A man who was intimately involved in the Lie that was perpetrated on the American people. Can you still support this administration and claim not to know they Lied, Lied and Lied again?

Answer 1

That's tough, because while I do support the idea this country is based on, I see how farther and farther we are drifting from that ideal.

But as far as this war?? It's been known from the beginning, whether people want to admit it or not (due to blind following) that this war was started with word games. There were no WMD and they knew that because their top spy there told them so. And then they conveniently brought him up on charges when he came public with that information. Was Bin Laden in Iraq, yes. But he left long before we got there. The administration in power (and I'm not saying Bush was the mastermind) wanted to ease the peoples minds by starting a war, any war. This also brought the country together while dividing it at the same time.

But this quote could be taken out of context. We really should hear the whole quote before making a decision about it.

Answer 2

Get over it. We & the ENTIRE world were wrong about there being mass quantities of WMD. Okay, sorry, now move on. The objective was regeim change. Mission accomplished. Now we're on step two: stabalize so it doesn't cost us more blood later. Then will come step three: after we've pulled out they will grow as a democracy & inspire moderate muslims across the region to democratize their own govts from within, which results in no audience for Islamic extremists, which results in War on Terror won. Good job everybody!!!

If you obsess about your personal hatred for this one man forever, what will it change. The best you can hope for is to creat a massive anti-war movement which will play out just like Vietnam... meaning we'll pull out too many troops to placate you, which will extend the war & get more people killed; then if you're really successful we'll keep pulling out till we lose, which will allow a regional civil war & power base for the people that did attack us on 9/11, again ultimately more lives. Plus yet another example of the US running away when it gets alittle bloody, which inspires bad guys to attack us cause they know they can get away with it.

If you really care about how many Americans are getting hurt or killed in Iraq, be quiet! The quickest easiest least damaging way for them to get home is to stay the course, win, & get the hell out on the current timetable. Anything but that will get additional Americans killed & maybe not all of them soldiers.

Answer 3

Lets start with a few things.

First Iraq has USED WMD. They gassed Iraqis and Iranians. Saddam openly claimed to have them and that he wanted them. I don't know why Bush's crew needed to lie about anything. All of the above is common knowledge. Saddam said he was going to be a nuclear power and dared us to do something about it. We did something about it. Why lie? We had plenty of reason to go in there. If nothing else the fact Saddam was attempting to become another Pol Pot/Hitler/Idi Amin was enough reason to visit him.

Second, whether Repugnican or Democrap your going to get nothing but lies. Kerry can't even figure out what he believes on an issue much less lie about it. Gore the twit who wanted to ban entire music forms? Please, tell me how that is any different. Are you telling me you'd really want us to just allow these people to have weapons that could wipe pretty much all life off the face of the earth?

You sound like a Democrap. You supported a president that took private FBI files about private citizens for petty reasons of revenge. Nothing to do with national interests at all. Just petty Clinton politics. Who took bribes from China which basically flooded the US with Chinese products as well as trashing the economy of allied Asian nations who were until then flooding the market with thier products. Of course there was bribary going on. An honest congresswoman actually got up and asked why the Japanese deligates came to her door asking who to bribe to get legislature passed. You didn't even hear it in the news. I happened to be watching CSpan that very instant. I never switch to Cspan , hell never watch TV but lucked into it or I'd never even known. I heard it was picked up by a couple reporters but quashed pretty quick.

So I'd have to say there was a pretty high level of niavity going on if anybody believed EITHER party intended to follow up on any promise made unless it was something that was destructive to the nation. Then they will happily follow up on it as unhappy people are people more easily misled. The more desperate and irrational they can make us the more they can get us to swallow. The more devided we are the easier it will be to lie to us and to pretend to protect us from the "other" evil party.

Answer 4

The American gov. has lied to their people many times over the life of our country but it is our belief in change and how we can evolve as a nation that makes us support our nation and the men & women who fight for our country, not the man who has been running it for what amounts to less than 1/4 of our lives.

Answer 5

for many people killing 100,000 Iraqis is not an issue even most of people who are against the war are talking about american victims and expenses ,not tens of thousands of Iraqis civilians which were killed why are the arab's lives are very cheap?!!

Answer 6

yes support 100 % main objective was sadam.He is the wmd they were after

Answer 7

the only lies are yours yes i support this government

Answer 8

no the goverment needs to be trurhful

Answer 9

"STAYING THE COURSE" IS ALL WE NEED TO KNOW.