Sunday, March 16, 2008

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea


O.C. protests mark fifth anniversary of war in Iraq:
A lone counter protester carried a sign that read, "Support the Troops." He declined to be interviewed....
Five years after start of Iraq war, hindsight changes two views:
"If I had known in advance the magnitude of the mistakes that were going to be made in the management of the war, I would not have voted for authorization," Rep. Ed Royce says.... Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach, said deposing Saddam Hussein and giving the people of Iraq a chance for democracy was a "wonderful goal. Now that we know what the price is, was it worth it? Probably not."....
1996: after years of U.S.-led sanctions against Iraq:
LESLEY STAHL: “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima...[I]s the price worth it?”

AMBASSADOR [to U.N.] MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: “I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”
SEE Five years in Iraq protests.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

C'mon - Give war a chance!

Anonymous said...

When you kill lots of people in foreign lands, they get hostile.

It's not complex, really.

Anonymous said...

Isn't Albright a liberal?

Anonymous said...

OK, you Chuckstinate fiberal! I rest my case!

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