Reply #31: You're missing the point....

[lefty_mcduff]

..Bush did not sell the war as a great gamibt to 'save the Iraqi people'. He told us, and the world, that Saddam was going to nuke us, fly unmanned drones over the US spraying VX gas, had a gazillion tonnes of anthrax, had connections with AQ (and was connected somehow to 9/11). All of which are UNTRUE. In doing so he pissed off the world, ignored a very large chunk of the US public (not to mention the rest of the world) when he described 10 million peace protestors as a focus group (yet 300 folks protesting the removal of a granite religious carving represent some 'solid graasroots movement' worthy of full-day coverage on Faux). He called the UN a 'irrelevant debating society" - the same organization Bushco is demanding money and warm bodies from. Now, why is this? Why didn't Bush just say, let's take out Saddam cause he's a bad dude? Because being a bad dude is not generally viewed as a reason to trash the UN, put gawd knows how many US miltitary people in harms way, and to generally alienate the US from the rest of the world. It should have been handled with a UN MANDATE, and then with international CO-OPERATION.