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All the WarHawks Need to Just Shut Up!
Apparently Senator Tom Cotton has been living under a rock for the past 12 years.
Cotton said in part that, "Even if military action were required...the president is trying to make you think it would be 150,000 heavy mechanized troops on the ground in the Middle East again as we saw in Iraq and that's simply not the case."
He went on to say that, "It would be something more along the lines of what President Clinton did in December 1998 during Operation Desert Fox. Several days air and naval bombing against Iraq's weapons of mass destruction facilities for exactly the same kind of behavior. For interfering with weapons inspectors and for disobeying Security Council resolutions."
Hmm. Those comments sound awfully familiar don't they?
Well they should because they're exactly like comments made by neocons and war hawks in the buildup to the Iraq War.
Before we invaded Iraq, all of the Bush administration cronies and war hawks in Congress were saying that the Iraq war would be easy, quick, and relatively painless.
Just a few months later, Condoleezza Rice proclaimed that, "I do not mean that we will need to maintain a military presence in Iraq as was the case in Europe."
And, then-Chairman of the Defense Policy Board and current Senior Fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute Richard Perle said that, "And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation."
Well, first of all, there is no "grand square" in Baghdad right now named after George Bush. But more importantly, every single comment made back then about the Iraq War was wrong.
-Thom
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