Do supporters of the Iraq war feel guilty when you see the death and destruction it has bought?
~Those of us who used just a thimbleful of common sense back in ’01 and ’03 and opposed the illegal, unjustified, immoral and unjustifiable invasions then can only say, with much chagrin ‘I told you so’. Why were we such a tiny minority then, when it was so certain that the current situation inevitably had to come to pass? As to Saddam, be aware that he was one of the six man hit team organized, trained and assisted by CIA when the US tried to take out Abd al-Karim Qasim in the 60s. It was CIA sponsorship that led to the rise of the Baath Party and Saddam. Saddam was the guy we wanted in charge because of his ruthlessness. It was only after he threatened to nationalize the oil to pay for his reforms that he became the bad guy. Al Qaeda and Osama? They were the folks we built the terrorist camps for in Pakistan in the 70s and 80s. They were the folks were armed and financed when they were doing our bidding in Afghanistan, back when we called them ‘freedom fighters, nationalists and patr
