Flip flop When I was lied to about WMDs I changed my mind

[Swede]

When Condi Rice said mushroom clouds on major cities,it scared me into thinking "Well I guess we have to invade". A part of me said they cannot be fabricating this stuff because they will get called on it. Little did I know they couldn't care less about fabricating stuff and getting caught. Yes I flip flopped,and yes I will have syrup, you facist evil bastard.

[taxidriver]

1. i was sure there would be at least a little wmd found, too.

alas, we have been sorely dissapointed.

[Warpy]

2. I honestly didn't think they'd find a thing

unless you count ancient and leaking shells buried out in the desert as an illegal disposal method "wmds."

I formed this position when Blix complained about incomplete paperwork even as he admitted they'd been allowed to inspect even mosques and palaces and had found nothing. The position was confirmed when the US military rolled right over the Iraqi forces without having to face even a whiff of mustard gas, a bathtub compound, easy to make on the spur of the moment.

If they'd had anything at all, they'd have used it in order to buy time for their families to flee the cities and towns ahead of the invasion. They didn't. They had nothing. Some of us knew it from the beginning.

That our government was able to lie to its members that convincingly is frightening, and it's the second time a disastrous, unwinnable war has been begun on lies and crackpot ideology.

It's unacceptable.

[stevedeshazer]

3. I believed Scott Ritter

Turns out he was right.

[Hoping4Change]

4. Now that's a name you don't hear mentioned these days.

You'd think media whores would want his opinion given that he has proven to be credible. <<sarcasm off>>

[stevedeshazer]

5. The Repubs dredged up everything they could find

on Ritter. The media ignored him.

He was smeared so that his message would be discredited. It worked.

Read here about the Ritter smearing by the right wing.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30634

[Hoping4Change]

6. I remember hearing that interview now that you jogged my

memory. I never thought then he would be out of the picture.

[Cheswick2.0]

7. I never believed them....but I had an advantage over you

I didn't believe the war was right even if they did have them. Since when do we go to war because someone has the same thing we have?
I do not believe in preventive war. I believe in just war when absolutely necessary, like when we are attacked, or when there is ethnic cleansing and the UN asks us to act.

I never ever trusted a single thing bush has ever done or wanted to do. You don't steal the office of President of the USA to do good.

Anyway, wellcome to the other side of opinion on the war in Iraq.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. All I can say is "I totally agree!"

I distintly remember saying to my husband a couple days after 9/11, "This would never have happened if Gore was in office."

Every time something new comes up, I keep saying it to myself. I am reminded every news day that it is not wishful thinking or sour grapes, but the truth. Why can't the average American see this?