Re: Condoleezza Rice Says She's `Proud' Of Decision To Invade Iraq

Singanas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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> Well if the neocons had succeeded in stabilizing Iraq,
> you would now be praising the Bush administration.

Surely, even you can see the fallacy in that statement?

> There was nothing fundamentally wrong about choosing
> Iraq over Afghanistan as the arena for 9/11 revenge.

Well, other than the small matter that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11...

> What went wrong was the management of the intervention.

You have a gift for understatement :-)

> I think the administration was right not to make Bin Ladin
> a greater demon than Saddam Hussein.

Well, Saddam Hussein didn't fly any airliners into skyscrapers..

>  Bin Ladin is just another misguided fanatic.

But rather a significant one, surely?

> Hussein of Baghdad was a greater evil by any measure of  Western values.

> Hussein is the Islamic edition of Adolph Hitler.

"Adolf" is the usual spelling...
-- 
John Briggs