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In one of President Bush's more famous verbal gaffes, he said, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice - won't get fooled again." Here it is, four years later, and it looks like the neoconservatives that promoted (and advocated for) the invasion of Iraq are trying to fool Americans a second time.
In 2002 and 2003, the father of the neoconservative movement, Bill Kristol, relentlessly advocated the invasion of Iraq. Kristol, who dodged the Vietnam War and counts Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz among his disciples, even said it would be easy because the Iraqi people would welcome us and wanted Saddam out. All we have to do is look at Iraq today and see how welcoming Iraq has been to our soldiers. Kristol is out there, right now, saying almost the exact same things on Iran as he did on Iraq, on how it would be a cakewalk and that the people of Iran would welcome our soldiers.
We need to remember one can't spell conservative without the word "con" and shame on us if we believe Kristol and his followers.
Personally, I think you need a stronger ending that "shame on us if we believe Kristol and his followers." Perhaps follow it up with what you envision a war with Iran being for the world or the US.
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