DeathBecomesYu wrote:
Watching that video, which i have seen many times and remember watching back in the day, just pisses me off. Here is a prominent Dem, liberal pushing for action and saying to the American people that Bush and his administration were covering up what they knew..... Damned if you do, damned if you don't!!!! Furthermore, apparently, Gore had "detailed" factual info that convinced him and his party that Iraq was a terrorist nation and deserved to be labeled so. It seems to me that they were in more of a rush than the Republicans were. If you read these forums at all, most of the "liberal" people would say that "Iraq had terrorist ties" is nonsense.
So to all the "all-knowing" people in this forum, look at what the American people have had to listen to over the last 16+ years. So who is to blame? Gore, Clinton...Dems who pushed for action, labeled Iraq as a terrorist supporting nation, signed legislation to remove Saddam and then bombed Iraq without a UN mandate? or.......
Bush Sr., Bush Jr.....Repubs who pushed for action, labeled Iraq as a terrorist supporting nation, signed legislation to remove Saddam and then bombed Iraq without a UN mandate.....
Hmmmm....funny how that all came out the same....like I said before, there is enough blame to go around but all we hear on these forums is about big bad Bush and the very short term, tunnel vision memory of many of you. I'm neither Republican or Democrat but I am not stupid enough to throw blame at one person when you seriously take a moment and look at the BIG PICTURE.
Clinton's foreign policy also had much to do with why I'm not that fond of him. I lean more in the isolationist direction, and while I saw Bosnia as a necessary conflict for us to intervene in, I thought Somalia was a mistake, and Iraq was a nation that was being dealt with well enough with air strikes.
Invading Iraq was obviously a bad idea, and I would be blasting Clinton the same as I do Bush if he had been the one to decide to invade it. The fact that Clinton lobbied to invade Iraq is definitely a mark against him (as well as a mark against many other Democrats).
Foreign policy is one area where I mostly agree with Ron Paul, although I'm not quite as isolationist as he is. I think we have to intervene sometimes (like in Afghanistan).