Pastor Larry said:
I don't know. But that's not the topic here. The topic here was your half truth.
Half-truth ?
1. Saddam Hussein was the recognized leader of Iraq, not anybody else. Him being despotic, tyrannical, and murderous does not becloud that
full truth.
He was recognized by the US, the UN, and every country in the world, and every corrupt hypocrite leading these organizations recognized him as the leader. Therefore he is a sovereign ruler of a sovereign state.
2. Iraq was a member of the United Nations. This was a sovereign, free country with its own history, its own politics, its own body politic. Iraq was not at war with the US, the US never declared war on Iraq. That is another
full truth.
3. Despite these two round full truths, this president sent American troops in harm's way, bombed Iraq, deposed a Sovereign ruler of a Sovereign country, indirectly contributed to his hanging, killed two of his sons, destroyed his family. That is a third
full truth.
4. This undeclared war, started on so-called faulty intelligence, has caused the deaths of more than three thousand brave American men and women, the maiming of thousands others, is draining the US economy, that is a fourth
full truth.
So George Bush "liberated" Iraqis from a murderous ruler ? Big deal.
That's what we like to look at now and console ourselves with because the whole awful truth, not half-truth as you like to call it, is, given the fact about the WMD'S at this point in time, we are an invading country, the Iraqis see us as invaders, and our hands are bloody with Saddam Hussein's blood, and his son's blood.
We have wronged a country, and we have wronged a man.
And my original premise was that Bush acted according to human nature. He is sinful just like the rest of us. His nature is corrupt just like the rest of us. He acted according to that nature, just like the rest of us may be prone to do given his situation.
I simply followed up on the result of that corrupt decision.
Any good he does to the Iraqis at this point still does not becloud or make right the wrong he had done: he had plunged this country into an unwanted, unwarranted war, he had been instrumental to the dethroning of a recognized, sovereign ruler, and we are all party to his wrongs, whether we like it or not.