Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Remember yellowcake?
The story was that intelligence agencies had learned Saddam Hussein was trying to buy yellowcake uranium to build nuclear weapons to use against the United States, which would have posed a threat to our national security, so we had to go to war against him to prevent him from using weapons of mass destruction on us.
The entire international coalition shared the intelligence evidence as did select members of Congress including John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, both of whom supported the war based on that intelligence assessment.
Except – no yellowcake. Turns out the intelligence was faulty. Nobody should have relied on it, much less gone to war over it. Bush lied, people died.
Fast forward a decade. Portions of the intelligence community believe Russia hacked into the DNC computers but portions of it do not, the evidence is unclear, the motive is unknown, the result on the election is impossible to prove. But some idiots in Congress are ready to start a war over this? And not just war with some two-bit tin pot dictator, war with a nuclear nation whose conventional military forces dwarf ours?
Insane. Literally, not sane. Should be locked up as a danger to themselves and all the rest of us.
Joe Doakes
Knowing some of this might come from reading military history.
But you can count liberals who read military history on one hand.
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