| deskpro2k3 said: he is right about how going to the middle east destabilized the region, and how the W.O.M. was all bullshit lies to go to war. |
I sincerly believe that Bush thought, based on agency intelligence, that there were W.O.M.s there. Satalite images are difficult things to see clearly and sometimes you have to go with your gut. He was wrong in that case, but what he wasn't wrong about was Hussain violating international law and committing a genocide on his own people with chemical weapons (even if they weren't W.O.M.). Do we just sit around and allow some guy to slaughter people randomly, because it isn't our business, or do we go there and try to protect/free these people? Yes, I understand that ISIS and AL Queda and all the other radical islamic terrorists are, in many ways, far worse than just one crazy dictator, but 1) we had no way of knowing that we were going to trigger with people that are brainwashed and 2) it's difficult to resist the moral obligation to at least TRY to do something to help people when they are dying. I, truly, wouldn't have known what would have been the best response to it. I wouldn't trust myself or any other human to deal with that type of situation, but Bush HAD to deal with it and he chose what was his gut instinct.
