That all true Believers shall break their Eggs at the convenient End

All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again, I'm not treading any new ground.

A recent youtube video by " Students and Young Americans for Senator John McCain" has brought my attention back to Gulliver's Travels greatest quote:

It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty's grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers. Whereupon the Emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.

The people so highly resented this law, that our Histories tell us there have been six rebellions raised on that account, wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown. These civil commotions were constantly formented by the monarchs of Blefuscu, and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that Empire.

It is computed, that eleven thousand persons have, at several times, suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volums have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big­Endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.

During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefuscu did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty­fourth chapter of the Brundecral (which is their Alcoran). This, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon the text: for their words are these; That all true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end: and which is the convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion, to be left to every man's conscience, or at least in the power of the chief magistrate to determine. .

The video juxtaposes threats of foreign hordes spending money on weapons to destroy America, cut with footage of BHO proposing cutting the Department of Defense budget and downplaying the threat of the foreign hordes looking to do harm to our freedom.

But the last part of the video is the kicker, the video closes out with a BHO quote, a "KnownFact?" and an appeal to emotion to hammer home the point of the video:

BHO quote: "The sole priority of Defense spending, will be to protect the America people"

Fact from a Book: "1993-2001 the Clinton administration cut Defense and Intelligence Spending by 35% - “Changing Dynamics of Defense Spending. Leon Sigal”" [1991 - USSR collapsed, 1991 - Gulf War ends, 1993 new President starts to cut military spending]

Appeal to Emotion: " 9 Months later [video of plane hitting one of the WTC towers]

I guess the premise of the video is that BHO won't spend enough money in the right places to keep American lives safe. Or that the Iraqi government doesn't really mean it when they say the Iraqi's wants foreign troops out and that BHO will abandoned them [is US security at too great a risk to leave up the democratically elected Iraqi government]? Or is the premise that the foreign hordes will fire ICBM's at the US and BHO will have the US military hog tied and unready to fight off either North Korea, Russia, Iraq, China...?

Who funded the video, the good folks at Boeing?

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This youtube attack piece just brings me back to my youth when a POTUS with a "D" next is name, Bill Clinton, tried to "Wag the Dog" to bring attention away from the fact that Bill received the other kind of sodomy from the "wrong" woman. Along with "AT LEAST TEN REASONS TO OPPOSE INITIATION OF WAR ON IRAQ" [ from a conservative nonetheless, I guess it was a ploy to get Al Gore as POTUS.]
Back in the late 90's, strikes aimed at Saddam and The Base were considered "Wat the Dog" and an distraction from the real threats of Red China, North Korea, and "amoral" activity in the Oval Office
Albeit the two previous links was just one person spouting off that happened to put "conservative" in the domain name and certain facts have become more apparent later on.

Then along comes a POTUS with a different letter next to his name, and a lack of new reliable evidence on existence or non-existence of Saddam's WMD , and a new strike by bin Laden's group of merry xenophobes and then many conservatives pulled a 180 on their views of Invading Iraq.

An oddly little known Islamic terrorist group hits their mark and Saddam's name recognition along with the fact that all people are ignorant fools [on too many topics] leads 70% of Americans to think their is a link between a paranoid megalomaniac secular [Sunni] Dictator and Sunni xenophobes . Thats people on both sides of the aisle.

I'm confounded by the number of people that originally supported giving Bush the option to use force invaded Iraq whether the UN approved but now stand in opposition to the war.
The Iraqi oil will pay for itself argument was laughable. As if Saddam's "cohorts" wouldn't do their best to muck up oil production or take steps to raise the US cost of the invasion.
The argument that the Iraqi's will greet foreign infidels as liberators was a stretch, the Hatfields , McCoys , and Kurds were reason enough to doubt all sides would trust foreigners enough to not seize control themselves. [It doesn't take a History Degree from an Ivy League school to know that the Shia, Sunni, and Kurds don't like eachother
About the only reason Saddam would not fully comply with the UN [and not have WMD] would be to give the perception that he was standing up to Western Powers, and/or to keep Iran guessing whether Saddam actually had or was looking to get usable WMD.
Saddam and The bin Laden Base working together would have been an unlikely union, no hindsight needed.

So there are many reasons why the Iraq War is and was doing better than could be expected back in early 2003.

Things could have been much worse

To some, Bill Clinton's rationale for Invading Iraq was "Wag the Dog" or for others it was a good thing to get a tyrant out of power.
To others, GWB's rationale for Invading Iraq was for the Bush43 administration to lie to themselves or for others it was a good thing to get a tyrant out of power

9/11 would have likely been used as different forms of political currency by 2 recent POTUS' as leverage to Invade Iraq.

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In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,