Reply #35: I agree. The hypothetical was "if we'd done well in Iraq." [View All]

That's the impossibility. That's also why I tend to OPPOSE any person who supported the invasion and who voted 'yea' for the IWR. I said then and say now that Kerry/Edwards lost the 2004 election when they voted 'yea' on the IWR. While others can parse and mince that election in many ways, the Swift-boating and 'flip-flop' claims gained purchase in the minds of the electorate in no small part due to their IWR votes.

I reserve my whole-hearted support for those who voted 'Nay.' I've been a steadfast opponent of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan since the very start. I was a vocal opponent of the "Gulf War" as well ... and the "wrong-footing" of Saddam by April Glaspie. The predations of global corporatism have been plain and obvious from the time Saddam was placed into power in Iraq. He's a monster, but he's THEIR MONSTER! He'd never be there if it weren't for the same interests who are spending innocent lives again - first in putting him into power and, second and third, in attempting to 'discipline' him and then remove him from power ... only to put another puppet regime in place.