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Let me get one thing clear: I support our troops 100%. They have to follow orders or risk court-martial for desertion, or worse, treason. So don’t hate them.

But dammit, we have the stupidest president in history. And I’m sick and tired of all the Dubya apologists who say this war has nothing to do with avenging Bush Sr.’s embarrassment at the hands of Saddam in the aftermath of the Gulf War, when Saddam didn’t get ousted like everyone wanted him to. And I’m tired of people saying the first war wasn’t about removing Saddam, because at that time, the executive order that Ford put into place against political assassination was still in effect, and Bush Sr. didn’t try to classify anyone wearing a military uniform and of Arab descent an “enemy combatant” and throw them into pig cages in Cuba.

But you can bet your bottom dollar that Bush Sr. was mad as hell that Saddam got to sit there and thumb his nose at the US despite our best efforts to make him unwelcome. And you can bet that this distaste got transferred to Dubya the moment he was handed the presidency by the Supreme Court.

So whether it’s officially stated or not, Dubya is doing it to avenge Daddy’s embarrassment. Of course he’ll never admit that, but he’s human, male, and from Texas. He has to protect the family name, and he just happens to be in a position where he has the most powerful armed forces in the world at his disposal to do so.

There isn’t one single shred of evidence that Saddam has any direct links to Al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden. Sure, he offers money to Palestinian suicide bombers’ families, but does anyone think he does that for any reason other than to piss off the US? If his motives were purely altruistic, he wouldn’t need to make sure his offers get broadcast all over world television for his enemies to hear. Saddam is an evil, evil man, but to go to war with him in the name of protecting the US from his terrorist activities is a bald-faced lie, and nothing Dubya ever says will change that.

If the point of this were simply to “free” the Iraqi people, why didn’t we try a bit harder to get the common people to revolt against Saddam? And another thing that’s been bothering me for years: since when is it the US’s responsibility to make sure every other country in the world is democratic? When did we become the world’s police force? Why is Saddam’s dictatorship any of our goddamn business as long as he “keeps it in his pants,” so to speak? You don’t see us waging war with Cuba to eradicate Castro, or with Zimbabwe to remove Mugabe, or Burma or Cambodia to remove the corrupt, evil regimes there. Or, as many have said, why aren’t we going after North Korea? At least we know the North Koreans have WMD and every intention to produce more. As much as everyone is reasonably convinced that Saddam is hiding them, the North Koreans have publicly admitted it.