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as they tend to distort issues rather than clarify them. The invasion of Afghanistan was both legal and justified by a government (the Taliban) that furthered and fostered the aims of AlQaeda. Invading without a plan for the future of that nation was criminally incompetent and will surely come back to bite us.
Afghanistan is far from destroyed you know, though I hasten to add that I do not wish to appear to be justifying the deaths and what destruction there was.
The invasion of Iraq was not an afterthought and had been on the table for over a decade, the brainchild of Rummy, Cheney, Wolfie and Perle, among others.Its purpose has been plainly stated by the PNAC Titans and has been noted here many times.
Your characterization of the American people as a mob while colorful is less than constructive and does nothing to clarify the thinking of a majority of Americans. We were attacked you know, and it seems rather normal to thirst for revenge, especially in the absence of clear and concise voices to explain to the nation exactly why we were attacked, why the targets were symbols of world wide capitalism and the military that protects and fosters them.
I would offer that one might castigate and excoriate the Democratic Party for its jumping on the Bush bandwagon, waving the flag,when its duty, as an opposition party was to call for rationale, common sense and giving the public another and more civilized point of view of events.
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