From USA Today:
Rebuffing criticism from former vice president Dick Cheney and others, Obama said information gained might have been obtained in ways "that are consistent with our values."
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You see, it is "might" that grabs me. Might is a qualifier. I might win the lottery... I might live to be a 100... But if I don't I won't be a multi-millionaire.... And if I don't I will be dead.
The Left in its trashy, snarky and out of touch with reality way opined, "Bush lied and men died." No, Bush didn't lie. Bush looked at all the information and came up with the conclusion that Saddam "might" have WMD's. He came to the rightful decision that he couldn't afford to gamble the nation's security so he acted. As he said in his 2003 SOTU speech.
Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained.
Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans, this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known.
We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes.
Obamie has never engaged in any activity in which the loss means death. He has never had to make life and death decisions. He even voted present 134 times in the Senate fearful of doing the wrong thing. When faced with his first big life and death test, the Somali pirates, the strongest he could be was to tell his Naval commander to use his judgment. That wasn't heroic. That was damanably weak and despicable.
But forget the pirates. That was small stuff. Think about terrorist attacks.
Think about information "might have been obtained....."
(This is an expanded version of a Post I made in The Tennesseean.)
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