<p>However, there is considerable confusion about the reason for the invasion. According to the poll, 85 percent of the survey respondents said the U.S. mission is mainly "to retaliate for Saddam's role in the 9-11 attacks," and 77 percent said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was "to stop Saddam from protecting al-Qaida in Iraq." </p>
<p>"President George W. Bush acknowledged in 2003 that Iraq was not directly involved in the terrorist attacks. "</p>
<p>This is why we can't trust troops on what they say about how much of a difference they are making, but the morgues are sure seeing the difference.</p>
<p>doesnt that change ur republican point of view, someone from the bay area should know better ur not from podunk where they teach creationism with a statue of a golden calf</p>
<p>Confused23, before you continue your pointless ridiculous statements like "doesnt that change ur republican point of view, someone from the bay area should know better ur not from podunk where they teach creationism with a statue of a golden calf" I'd like to point out that I am a very intelligent person and yet I still am a Christian. Not because my parents raised me that way and I am somehow brainwashed (which is seemingly what you believe, in your idiocy) but rather because I used that intelligence and searched for answers, and came to a conclusion that I will die defending, that there is a God and he DID create everything. What do you believe? That somehow magically the universe created itself?</p>
<p>Stop making yourself look stupid and spread your ignorance elsewhere.</p>
<p>Oh, and btw, I read your stupid article. What does that say? Okay, we all know that Saddam isn't Bin Laden, so therefore he is not directly responsble for the attacks on September 11. Sure Bush is stupid sometimes, says something that is incorrect. However, usually if he says something that is incorrect (like, for example, that Iraq had WMDs) we discover that AFTER the fact and play monday-morning QB. Bush made the decision to invade Iraq with the same evidence that EVERYONE, I repeat, EVERYONE had. The permission to invade was given to the President by 77 Senators and the resolution passed in the House 296-133. So are you saying that they are all stupid as well? Remember, before the 2004 elections there were even more Democrats holding seats in both the Senate and the House, and so probably around half of the Democrats supported it in the Senate. Doesn't that say anything? Don't even try to say that Bush is stupid and then say that he managed to trick individuals that have been elected to the United States Senate. Then you are just taking the same double-sided position as so many other misguided individuals.</p>
<p>One last thing, about your previous statement: "someone from the bay area should know better ur not from podunk..." So you are basically saying that everyone from the bay area or major metropolitan liberal areas are naturally enlightened to the left point of view. I live in Portland, Oregon, where shamefully around 10,000 people marched today in protest of the war in Iraq (understandable I suppose), and in protest of our men and women fighting and DYING to help the Iraqi people rebuild their shattered world (unacceptable). Does that mean that since I have somewhat conservative viewpoints I have somehow broken from the perfect mold. Well if that's true then how can I live with myself? Oh my, maybe I'm just totally screwed up in the head, I must have a mental illness if I believe the things I do!!! Thank you Confused (hehe, just noticed your name for real, makes sense I suppose) for waking me up from my dream state. I've never really lived until this point. Those conservatives are crazy. Who knows what they are thinking. But of course it is now our job to inform them of our so much more superior thinking, because naturally our brains are bigger and better than theirs.</p>
<p>A word of advice confused dude (by the way the above was all sarcasm in case you didn't catch it) at 17 you have a long way to go before you know everything about the world, so stop thinking you do. Before you accuse others of being lemmings, furst stop acting like one.</p>
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<li><p>"Bush made the decision to invade Iraq with the same evidence that EVERYONE, I repeat, EVERYONE had." Too simplistic. The reason the intelligence was false is because he fabricated it. Do you really think the CIA really think he had WMD's. No. Mr. Danger and Dick Barney Fife were pressuring Tenet and the CIA to make bogus intelligence. Let's even give him the beneift of the doubt and say he was duped. What about what the Zogby Poll that stated so many soldiers are under the illusion that Hussien had links to 9-11 and Bin Laden. These people are so inundated in propoganda and Bush-hysteria, do you really think they can help anyone rebuild anything. If they are dumb enough to believe Hussien and Bin Laden were working together, they probably wouldn't be able to locate Iraq on a map.</p></li>
<li><p>"The permission to invade was given to the President by 77 Senators and the resolution passed in the House 296-133. " More Democrats voted agaisnt the war than Republicans, and 2nd of all at least us liberals kick the **** out of the Democrats who voted for the war. Didn't you hear about the "Joe must go" campaign in Conn. to get rid of the Dinocrat Liebermann or about how many liberals in the D.N.C. are threatening not to vote for Hillary Clinton if she is nominated for the Presidency under the Democratic ticket. At least we don't try to blindly defend stupidty. </p></li>
<li><p>I never said that Democrats have better ideas how to finish the war , but a good Vietnam War analogy would do you people good now. If someome is in a burning house, should he not yell fire even if he doesn't know how to extinguiush the fire. Democrats were just afraid that they would be branded unpatriotic by the Podunks if they weren't militant.</p></li>
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<p>p.s. on the god religion issue, there is a difference between a belief in a creator and religion, the latter, being the #1 cause of death and destruction throughout world history, because of people who somehow believe that their religious figures have a direct connection with some sort of God.</p>
<p>Open your eyes confused & be confused no more!</p>
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"What they do is support the conclusion in the report, which we made in the last couple of years, that the regime had the intention of building and rebuilding weapons of mass destruction, when circumstances permitted."
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During his reign, Hussein was a major supporter of terrorism. He offered $25,000 apiece to the families of PLO and Hamas suicide bombers, and has at various times supported, and been supported by, al-Qaeda and other groups.
<p>Not going here again! LOL Good going Taffy. Don't let confused shake anyone's tree. He'd tried to do this before. Where's a good moderator when ya need one! ;)
Somebody tell me how the ignore button works. I know there is one.</p>