AntonToo
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- Jun 13, 2016
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Cheney was a major architect of neo-con foreign policy that by now has been throughly rejected in bi-partisan fashion.
His place in history is one of failure, which for guys like him is probably worse fate than just dying sooner or later.
Actually, Democrats are not repudiating the policy. They are saying they did the right thing. It just turned out that W was wrong about "stockpiles." They were mislead on the facts. They are not saying they did the wrong thing with the neocon policies they followed. They are specifically saying they did nothing wrong when they authorized the war, W did.
That's my fundamental argument. If you supported the war for WMDs, you should still support the war. Obviously Hussein was a threat since he USED them, which you can't do if you don't HAVE them. That means he could build them. Stockpiles are irrelevant.
I want us to learn from the mistake that we should not have gone to war if he did have stockpiles. It wasn't our war, we need to stop being policeman to the world. We should have let his neighbors and Europe take the lead and at most only provided them support.
Democrats can't have it both ways. They can't say like the ridiculous crap that you did that they are repudiating neocon policies while still saying they did nothing but be "lied to" by W since the justification for the war was pure neocon
Nonsense, democrats were against country building projects based of pre-emptive rationales before and they are against it now