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Finally Someone Sensible on WBEN
I don't listen to the above station because 99% of the time, I disagree with everything they say, however, I do like listening to one person, Ron Dobson. He is probably the only one who is not a brainwashed conservative, right wing Republican on the station so married to George W. that he will say that he agrees with George W. just for the shock value or because is really is that stupid.
Dobson actually makes sense and while I don't always believe in his point of view, he actually isn't afraid to stray from the stations rhetoric.
Tonight, he was asking, if you knew what we know now, would you be okay with starting this whole Iraq war over again? Today is the five year anniversery if thats what you want to call it. I wouldn't be celebrating because the last five years have costed thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars and we have made a country that is not ours for all intensive purposes worse off than it was under Saddam Hussein.
Yes he was a bastard who had some problems with his own authority but at least he was maintaining order in his country. We on the other hand seem to have created a state of chaos. The Iraq people have seen their water become less drinkable, their electricity and other utilities are worse off today than they were and over all their standard of living has declined since we have been there. Another example is that before we went in, there were 34,000 doctors registered in the country. Since then 20,000 of those doctors have fled, so their healthcare is in shambles as well.
Top that off with the Pentagon releasing documents today clearly stating that Saddam Hussein and Iraq had NO CONNECTIONS to Al Qaida and I think that most of our answers would be that we would not do this again.
Think about the billions that could have been saved and the lives that have been lost that could have lived. Not to mention the lives that have been psychologically damaged by being there.
I honestly thought that even the monetary part of this war was going to be paid for by Iraqi oil money, there was another lie. This whole war was fought and continues to be fought on facts convenient only to George W. Bush and his administration. All we need to find out now, is that George knew that it was all a lie and went ahead with this anyway, then slap those impeachment papers on the table.
Bleeding hearts think alike
Bleeding hearts?
People talk sense about this disaster of a situation in Iraq, and all you can come up with is to call them bleeding hearts?
People like you make me sick because you couldn't care less about our troops, you just want to defend a failed President, and use tired cliches to do it.
You're not only dumb, you're unoriginal.
I can't see how anyone can defend the Iraq situation or this president anymore, even onthe things hes been speaking about lately its been a day late and dollar short and he really has no plan of action to do anything about it.
All we can do is hope that the people of this country have finally come full circle and appreciated that the democrats while still flawed may be the best way out of the situations we and the world find ourselves in.