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It’s quite ashame that Blair’s own countrymen did not appreciate him, and the moonbat left harrangued him because he was actually trying to fight terrorists.
How was a pre-emptive invasion of Iraq an attempt to “fight terrorists”?
Blair, like Bush, attempted to sell the pre-emptive war in Iraq, as a central front in the War on Terrorism. Unfortunately for him, most of the British people didn’t buy into the propaganda. And unlike in the U.S., a majority of the British people have opposed the Iraq War from the very beginning. Blair’s growing unpopularity is tied, in great part, to the the Iraq War, and I think history will judge Blair much like Bush–as a politician who exploited a national tragedy and our fears of terrorism to plunge us into an unecessary war.
You can label Blair and Bush’s detractors as the “moonbat left” all you want, but their predictions as to how the war would turn out have been somewhat more prescient than those who beat the drums of war.
There were no WMD.
There were no ties to 9/11.
There were no mobile bioweapons labs.
There were no unmanned aerial drones.
There was no yellowcake from Niger.
The Iraqis did not greet us as liberators.
The war has cost far more than the $100-$200 billion estimate given by the White House in 2003.
The battle of Iraq did not end on May 1, 2003.
The insurgents were not in the last throes in June of 2005.
The real shame, Laura, is that people like you continue to call those who spoke out against the war “moonbats” while defending those who got us into this disastrous war.
It’s quite ashame that Blair’s own countrymen did not appreciate him, and the moonbat left harrangued him because he was actually trying to fight terrorists.
Laura,
How was a pre-emptive invasion of Iraq an attempt to “fight terrorists”?
Blair, like Bush, attempted to sell the pre-emptive war in Iraq, as a central front in the War on Terrorism. Unfortunately for him, most of the British people didn’t buy into the propaganda. And unlike in the U.S., a majority of the British people have opposed the Iraq War from the very beginning. Blair’s growing unpopularity is tied, in great part, to the the Iraq War, and I think history will judge Blair much like Bush–as a politician who exploited a national tragedy and our fears of terrorism to plunge us into an unecessary war.
You can label Blair and Bush’s detractors as the “moonbat left” all you want, but their predictions as to how the war would turn out have been somewhat more prescient than those who beat the drums of war.
There were no WMD.
There were no ties to 9/11.
There were no mobile bioweapons labs.
There were no unmanned aerial drones.
There was no yellowcake from Niger.
The Iraqis did not greet us as liberators.
The war has cost far more than the $100-$200 billion estimate given by the White House in 2003.
The battle of Iraq did not end on May 1, 2003.
The insurgents were not in the last throes in June of 2005.
The real shame, Laura, is that people like you continue to call those who spoke out against the war “moonbats” while defending those who got us into this disastrous war.