[HT:RP]
President-elect Barack Obama, on "60 Minutes," defended the financial bailout package. Yes, said Obama, the economy continues to suffer, but "I think the part of the way to think about it is things could be worse. … So part of what we have to measure against is what didn't happen and not just what has happened."
Interesting. Why not apply the "what didn't happen" standard to the unpopular Iraq war? [snip]
- At the time of the invasion of Iraq, more than 70 percent of Americans supported the war. Intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom, Jordan and Egypt — just to name a few — believed that the dictator of Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction...
- After 9/11, polls show that between 80 and 90 percent of Americans expected another hit within six months to a year. It didn't happen...
- Kay found no stockpiles of WMD. He did, however, say that Saddam retained the intention and the capability of resuming his WMD program...
- But for the Iraq invasion, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi would not have renounced his WMD program - now under lock and key in Tennessee...
- Rasmussen poll released a week ago finds voter confidence in the War on Terror at 60 percent — its "highest level ever"...
So was the Iraq war, as Obama insisted, a mission that "never should have been authorized and never should have been waged"?
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