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In reply to the discussion: Look people - the Iraq War was an honest mistake [View all]Arkana
(24,347 posts)Jesus, how many people around here lack critical-thinking skills? At NO POINT does Obama defend the war as a good thing. He never, ever, ever, ever, EVER said that it was. He was attempting to point out that even when America is at its WORST (and using the Iraq incursion as an example), that we attempted to get an international coalition (which we did, for however brief a time it was) and we did not forcibly annex Iraq the way Putin is doing to Crimea. Therefore, Putin's analogy is false.
It really is remarkable. I've never met a more stubborn group of people than the Angry Brigade here on this forum. Instead of allowing facts to shape your opinion, you have decided to form an opinion then twist the facts to fit it instead.
You have decided--DECIDED--that Obama is a warmongering, neocon, Bush-lite asshole, and despite all the evidence to the contrary, you will interpret anything that is not "sufficiently" condemning or combative in nature that comes out of the President's mouth--whether it is about health care, foreign policy, or the opposing party--to mean that he's in league with those Bush-era chickenhawk assholes. You know what other political demographic thinks in unvarying shades of black and white?
Yeah. That's right. You know the answer.
You folks are too smart not to have critical reading skills, so please, for the love of whatever God you worship, stop pretending you don't have them for the sake of manufactured outrage.
I realize this post won't last long, but I felt like writing it because I'm sick to death of people shooting first and asking questions later.