12 Short years ago, Nicole Wallace and Steve Schmidt were working to get McCain/Palin elected....
amazing how times have changed.
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and liberals chose to believe the lies and supported it.
There is, however, a huge difference here between the evils enabled by people like them, who supported the second Iraq war because for inadequate reasons, and hard right conservatives who would have supported occupying, massacring, enslaving and "we should have taken the oil" if that's what their leaders decided.
We must recognize the very large differences among conservatives and reunite with those we can work with to stop the barbarians or we will look back on even today with longing.
Moderate conservatives are more like liberals in being able to create stable societies that don't murder each other and even and advance to be better. Our "normal" is sadly not always right or good and can be lead astray, but it can be usually right and good with good leadership. And normal tends to want good leaders. Look at the 2018 midterms choice for "normal" as a rejection of bad. Scar and Wallace also admit Iraq was wrong now, a very important trait.
The second group, though, those Scar and Wallace are NOT like: Hard-core conservatives always have someone they won't get along with and usually look for bad leaders to do something about it. They're unhappy with the leadership moderate conservatives choose on their own, who agree way too much with leaders chosen by liberals. To this day many hard-righters insist that we were fully justified in invading and murdering and that we should have left Iraq ruined so it can never threaten us again. Yeah, Iraq threatened us and we had to protect ourselves. Most believe anyone they don't like is a threat that must be taken out before it gets them. As you can imagine, that little problem's been studied and proven again and again. They see peace treaties as very weak and potentially devastating mistakes. They're not the definitive kill they want.
Get the huge, huge difference? The world can live and does advance when imperfect normal people like these two and us dominate. But when we are divided, like now, we don't dominate and really, really bad things start happening.
Btw, just so you know where I'm coming from on Iraq, I supported the first Iraq war to put Iraq back in its borders and stop the genocide within Iraq, barring its military from 2/3 of Iraq's hinterlands using aerial surveillance to keep genocide stopped for the next decade. As wars go, it was a model. A decade later I supported giving the president the power to stop Hussein from breaking the controls we'd imposed because it was necessary to avoid yet another war and resumption of genocide, but instead it was misused to start a new war and go for the more definitive kill. And the oil. I was completely opposed to the dreadful, tragic second from the very beginning. Not so different from where Scar and Wallace are now, and no excuses for them that they weren't always there, but they had a lot of company in the majority of the electorate, including too many Democrats, who supported invasion of Iraq. I'm sure that includes a bunch who deny now because the support was actually quite strong at the time.
