I posted this in the BOG ...

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79. except one could make the same parallel to Iraq

1. Did I have information about Iraq that BushCo did NOT have?

a. I was of the opinion that Iraq did NOT have WMD while BushCo (and the media) claimed he did. Certainly Bush had more information than I did, but it turned out that I was right.
b. I was of the opinion that we should let the inspectors do their job and that Saddam was cooperating (I originally thought that Saddam would not cooperate and thus give Bush an excuse to invade, and I also thought that Bush would not invade without a good excuse - two wrongs for me there.)
c. I expected the war to cause many more American casualties than it did, but knew that invasion meant death and destruction. BushCo surely knew that too.
d. I was afraid that Iraq would be hard to stabilize as some were predicting. Again, the antiwar people were right and Bush wrong.
e. I was afraid war would be very expensive - and it was.

and so on

2. It never seemed to me that Bush was very smart (although, unlike me, he did become rich AND serve two terms as President - but still struck me as a doofus every time I heard him speak.)

3. It never seemed to me that Bush cared about human life, either in America or in Iraq. That he was quite willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of human lives to make a few million dollars for KBR and friends.

At this point in the Obama Presidency though, I do not really believe Obama cares very much about ordinary Americans. So I am not sure what to believe about his motives in regard to Syria. Hard to see a clear profit motive and presumably Obama does not have the same ties to KBR and such that Bush did/does.