Reply #133: I wanted more information at the beginning. [View All]

[Virginian]

I kept hearing the excuses for going to war, but nothing solid enough to support it. I kept waiting for the real reason and finally figured out there wasn't a good reason, so then I went from neutral to negative on it.

Bush kept saying things like We were attacked on 9/11 and Saddam is a bad man. He would put 9/11 and Saddam together in the same paragraph, but he didn't come right out and say Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. He was very careful in how he worded things to let people think he was connecting the dots when I never heard him actually connect them. Now he is trying to say that he never told us Saddam had anything to do with 9/11 and that may be true. But he sure mislead a lot of people to draw that conclusion.

He talked about Osama for one year. Shortly after the one year anniversary of 9/11, he talked only about Saddam and never mentioned Osama. He wanted people to morph their anger at Osama into anger at Saddam. I was very glad in the debates when Kerry made him admit that it was Osama and not Saddam who planned the 9/11 attack against us.

I would have supported Bush's war if there had been a good reason to go to war. There was no reason at all so, therefore, I oppose the war.