Iran Crisis: What Happens Next?

[hillclimber]

Originally posted by KenH:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by hillclimber:
To me the costs are justified in lives saved. Whatever the cost.

I don't want to hear anyone, and I mean anyone, blaming the oil companies if prices go up if we and/or our allies attack Iran. </font>[/QUOTE]Well, if we do, you will hear it. Most everyone buying fuel will surely blame big oil. They always do.

 

[LadyEagle]

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[Scott J]

Originally posted by Terry_Herrington:


Maybe more "liberals" would be willing to give President Bush more slack if we felt we could trust him to tell us the entire truth before we commit ourselves to war.

Maybe more liberals should stop worrying about their own feelings and follow where the evidence obviously leads... that the administration believed the same intelligence that Dems like Clinton and Kerry did when assessing Saddam's threat to the US and our interests.

There simply is not evidence that Bush "lied". There is evidence that some intelligence used to justify the war was incorrectly believed... by high profile leaders across the political spectrum.

I will also say that more "liberals" like me would agree to intervene if we saw that a rogue country, which Iran surely is, was actually producing a nuclear weapon with a reasonable intent to use it anywhere in the world.

The intelligence coming from both US and allied sources was that Iraq was just such a nation. AND, as opposed to Iran, Saddam had already demonstrated a willingness to use WMD's against his enemies.

Bush is paying for doing the only prudent thing he could have done. He could not afford the risk of not removing Saddam in the face of the pre-war intelligence analyses.

I know that this "liberal" would support such an action.

Then why aren't you? Look at statements by your own heros like the Clintons, Kerry, et al before the war. They were privy to the intelligence. They supported action and now are lying and obfuscating for political expediency.

Believe it or not liberalism encompasses a wide diversity of beliefs, as does conservatism, I'm sure.

I am not actually a conservative. I am a libertarian who happens to believe that we are in far more danger in this day from "liberals" who would both strip us of legitimate civil liberties and property rights than "conservatives" who might be more inclined to involve gov't in cultural concerns.

Unfortunately, the 94 idealists like Gingrich were either casualties or else captured by the Beltway. Very few Republicans show much resolve about actually reducing the size and scope of the federal gov't. In 10 years, they went from a movement that rightly discerned that things like NPR, PBS, NEA, and even the Dept of Education should be defunded and sent back to the states and the people... to a "party" that seeks to buy votes with taxpayer dollars just like the Dems did for 40 years before them.

 

[LadyEagle]

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