Quote:I don't ignore parts of your posts. I just find parts of them to be less worthy of my time than others, particularly when I've already responded to your main point. Did Obama want to stay in Iraq? No, but even if he had, the support for him to do so was not there. All politicians run with the goal of being omnipotent leaders. Most fail.

 

As to proof, you're not going to find a government official going on record saying, "Yup, Iraq was all about revenge, Halliburton stock and oil futures." The closest you'll get might be George H. W. Bush's statement in his autobiography about his son letting [BAD WORD REMOVED] Cheney take too much control of the administration, and Cheney's desire to use force to strong-arm the Middle East. As rollerjag has already pointed out, if you connect the dots and follow the money, it's not too hard to see that there were motivations beyond, "Saddam might probably could potentially have or be trying to acquire WMDs."

 

Your insistence that Saddam would have to have been a willing participant is almost as comical as your argument that being transsexual is the same thing as pouring bleach in your eyes. Saddam Hussein had a long history of tension with the US and the west in general, going back before Desert Storm. If you'd told him that the US was going to invade if he didn't allow UN inspectors in, he'd probably have added more concertina wire to the top of the fences around his facilities. He was a natural patsy, and you don't have to know that you're a patsy to be one.

 

Your insistence upon documented evidence in a situation where you'll never find any is cool. That's on you. If you're not willing to connect the dots, follow the money, and think outside the, "Bush said this and no one felt like getting killed enough to dispute it," box, then nothing I say or do will convince you that there was more, much more, to the Iraqi invasion than WMDs and UN inspectors. By the federal government's own admission, the insistence that there were WMDs was a lie, a statement presented as fact when all involved knew it was speculative. That alone should be enough to make your Spidey Sense tingle about the whole situation. If it doesn't, hey, enjoy life. I'm done trying to tell a brick wall that it's red.