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USMC Capt: "I believed Bush. I was wrong."

 
 
Reply Sun 16 Apr, 2006 06:36 am
USMC Capt: "I believed Bush. I was wrong."

Coming home ?- disillusioned

By Christopher H. Sheppard
Special to The Times

Three years ago, I was a Marine Corps captain on the Iraqi/Kuwaiti border, participating in the invasion of Iraq. Awestruck, I heard our howitzers thunder and watched artillery rockets rise into the night sky and streak toward Iraq ?- their light bathing the desert moonscape like giant arc welders.

As I watched the Iraq war begin, I completely trusted the Bush administration. I thought we were going to prove all of the left-wing antiwar protesters and dissenters wrong. I thought we were going to make America safer. Regrettably, I acknowledge that it was I who was wrong.

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Reply Mon 17 Apr, 2006 12:04 pm
Only an idiot would still believe the Iraq war was the right thing to do. Bush wanted to attack Iraq and he would make up any lie to do so, even using the tragedy of 9/11 as an excuse. The man is reprehensible.
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Reply Mon 17 Apr, 2006 12:10 pm
"This war is so f*cking illegal", Pat Tillman.
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Reply Mon 17 Apr, 2006 07:28 pm
State Department Memo: '16 Words' Were False
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Monday 17 April 2006

Eleven days before President Bush's January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.

The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded State Department memo is the first piece of hard evidence and the strongest to date that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored intelligence information in their zeal to win public support for invading Iraq.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041706Y.shtml
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