Attn: I-Mockery conservatives

[Sethomas]

Everyone is entitled to the right to change one's mind. I confess that at the time of the last elections, between the two main candidates I would have chosen Bush. Knowing what I do now, I see that such would have been a mistake. As of now, for those of you who still support the war, what are your reasons for believing that the war was rightly fought?

The weapons issue was never a good reason because a) Bush never gave the inspections a chance to work, without even any sign of their obstruction, b) Even if they were armed to the teeth, Iraq would be too chicken shit to ever use them because Israel has been looking for the slightest opportunity to beat the crap out of any Arab state to make an example, and c) there was never reliable intelligence that showed that they had any WMD in the first place.

The argument that the war was fought for altruistic reasons, that is to save the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator, is fundamentally flawed and utterly stupid because it's wholly implausible that we prevented more deaths than we caused with a 3000+ civilian casualty rate.

I'm not trying to beat a dead horse here, but really, why support the war at this point?