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In reply to the discussion: Joe [View all]AndyA
(16,993 posts)They were told of WMDs, confirmed, as were we. Condi Rice warned of the possibility of a mushroom cloud. We were told we would be in and out quickly.
Had Congress been told the truth, that there was no verifiable evidence of WMDs, no connection with OBL, no connection with 9/11, that the two wars would last about a decade or longer, and would cost well over $1,426,446,030,970 before they were through--all of which would be borrowed money added to the deficit, how many Democrats would have voted NO instead of YES?
I was against the wars from the beginning as well, but the facts weren't exactly clear, and the media kept beating the war drum, which caused a lot of people to support the war.
We'll likely never know the outcome had the lies not been so rampant, but I still blame the GOP/Bush Administration for lying the country into wars that were unnecessary. I'm not defending anyone's vote, but if everyone had been told the truth from the beginning, I doubt we would have initiated military action. We would have found OBL and dealt with him, but the argument for going into a bloodbath in Iraq and Afghanistan would have been pretty weak.