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In reply to the discussion: As much as we despise Trump.. [View all]Neema
(1,181 posts)agog at how people have forgotten he's a war criminal, because he seems affable and almost harmless now. Good grief. It's actually the only single thing that bothers me about Michelle Obama. I know all the former presidents and their wives share a bond that no one else can understand, and I know she's all about going high (which I admire). But I don't think I could bring myself to be so affectionate with a man who is responsible for so many unnecessary deaths.
THE MAN JOKED AROUND ABOUT LOOKING FOR THE WMDS UNDER HIS DESK, as if it were all a big, hilarious blooper that thousands and thousands of people died based on the "evidence" of those WMDs. I cannot and will not ever forget, or forgive, that. And I didn't even lose a loved one in the war. I can't imagine seeing him chuckling about looking behind the Oval Office curtains for the missing WMDs if my son or husband or brother died in the war. Can you?
There are other things that made his presidency an egregious stain on our country, from stealing the election in the first place, to Katrina, to so many things in between. But the breathtaking disrespect it takes to joke about the lies you told in order to go to war (with the wrong country, for no other reason than to make your oil company friends rich) remains to the sorest spot for me. It's something a sociopath would do. SO. MUCH. BLOOD. WAS. SPILLED. You don't get to EVER joke about it, EVER. Even if the war was completely just, don't fucking joke about the reason so many young men and women died. Ugh.