[Vision2020] Re: Courageous Barbara Lee!

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Joan wrote:

"Let's not get confused.  These aren't my arguments, Ted; they're John 
Kerry's.  I would not have voted to grant Bush the authority to use force"

I understood this but I took your arguments to be some sort of defense of 
Kerry's position.  I guess you were attempting to make bad logic based on false 
information seem sensible?  That's how I would characterize the decision by the 
US Congress to give Bush support for the invasion of Iraq.

False information: the Iraq threat to the US: Saddam Hussein represented less 
of a threat to the US than the funding for Al Quada coming from Saudi Arabia. 
 There were no calls from W. Bush or the US Congress for the Saudi 
totalitarian dictators to give up the people who fund Al Quada or we will bomb them.

Joan wrote:

"Who knew that Bush would make such a hash of Iraq?  Some guessed; most 
didn't have a clue."

Bad logic: many people knew Iraq would be a mess to invade and attempt to 
turn into a "Democracy."  This was an easy prediction.  I would not call it a 
"guess."  Based on the ethnic, religious, economic and political situation of 
that region, and internally to Iraq, I think any sober and thorough analysis of 
the US goals in invading Iraq would warn of a long bloody struggle with slim 
chances of success.

Ted Moffett

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