Of course Jacob's right about Hitler and Bush. They clearly aren't in the same league, as Hitler was an outright dictator and killed millions(?) of people. No one's saying Bush has created concentration camps and is conducting mass genocide. It just seems like his ideology isn't that different. And should we really wait until there are concentration camps before realizing he isn't the guy to follow?
Fact: Iraq was always dubya's target (There's some book by one of his top executives with taped meetings to this effect from--literally--day 1 of his presidency)
Fact: He has publicly declared he was "never really concerned with Osama" who is still at this time the leading suspect in the 911 bombings, as is the group "Al Quada" that he belongs to. A connection between Al Quada and Iraq is what Bush originally based the war on. The "danger factor" was Bush's unsubstantiated and currently disproven insistence that Saddam had WMD that he could use against the US.
Fact: US intelligence repeatedly gave Bush reports saying that "to the best of their knowledge" Al Quada had "no ties" with Iraq or Saddam Hussein.
Fact: Iraq has never attacked the US.
These four facts are all it takes to say that he sent us to war on a lie. If you want to support Bush, you have to accept this. Then you can move your argument on to: Saddam was a bad guy and we were right to act like international police. And probably someone will mention that the US originally proposed (or at least had a part in) the creation of the UN decades ago to act as international lawmakers and enforcers, thus negating the ability of any one country to give itself the role of the world's janitor.
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