Re: Does \"ordering actions which result in the deaths of innocent Iraqis\"
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Require the death penalty? Lets be consistent please.
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Do you believe any of America's presidents during WW2 should have been tried and put to death?
You could counter, as someone in this thread mentioned, that Bush lied about the reasons for going to war. Bush and other proponets for the war gave numerous reasons for invading Iraq, most of which were not lies, but since we did not find WMDs people that did not like Bush jumped all over it and called him a liar. The fact that he lied about the WMDs, in my opinion, is highly debateable. I believe Bush actually thought Saddam either had them or was actively pursuing getting them, people that despise Bush think otherwise. They claim that he knew without a shadow of a doubt, Saddam did not have WMDs and chose to tell the American people that he did anyway. That would hvae been a lie. However a great deal of evidence suggests this is not true. That being said, this goes back to the poker example of getting it all in with AA preflop only to lose to 72o, after someone told you that you will make money if you do that. Are they a liar? No.
I got a little off topic there. My answer to you is no. Let's say I am a city planner, we decide that a bridge should be built to make it easier to access two parts of our city from each other. The plan gets accepted and the bridge is built. A short period after the bridge is built, it collapses killing hundreds who were on the bridge and many more who were unlucky enough to be fishing underneath the bridge when it collapsed. Should any of us planners or anyone involved in ordering the builiding of the bridge require the death penalty?
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If you took bribes and kickbacks to build a shoddy bridge. Than yes you are guilty of murder.
How any American can still support Bush is beyond me. Funny thing is any Republican candidate will have to distance himself from Bush to have a hope
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Building a shoddy bridge and building a bridge that you know will fail are different things to me.
When you say "If you took bribes and kickbacks to build a shoddy bridge..." are you trying to imply that Bush purposely allowed the implementation of the war to be "shoddy"? If so, I don't see how Bush could possibly think he would benefit more from a war plan that results in the disaster that we have today than from one that is a sweeping success.
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