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In reply to the discussion: Ok....I've made up my mind.....I can't support Hillary... [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)have the foresight to see the consequences of a Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever else we are these days. Enough is enough, we need leaders who don't have to apologize more than a decade later for something most of us ordinary people were able to predict back then.
Imagine eg if we had a Congress filled with people like Sanders and Byrd and all the other good Dems who DID have that foresight and good judgement but were let down by members of their own party?
All the lives that would have been saved, all the money that could have gone to make this a better country for everyone.
In ANY job, if you made a mistake, assuming it was a mistake, with one hundred times less consequences than eg, the Patriot Act, Iraq, you would be instantly fired and would be lucky if you ever worked again.
I'm sorry but to be asked to forget something as horrific as that war and all those Bush policies that got support making them possible, when a good opposition party would have ended them before they began, is simply not rational.
Millions of people's lives were affected by that decision. I don't understand why people are willing to overlook these things.
It's nothing personal, but we are the ones who decide the course this country takes in the future, and it is an awesome responsiblity towards this country, but more and more since the neocons set us on a course of forever war, towards the people of so many others. I know they used to have hope we could stop them, and we tried, but we did not have the support of many of our leaders.