tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16974532.post8595589962348514386..comments2023-11-02T04:10:52.184-04:00Comments on My Two Cents Worth: MTCW Idiot of the week.Big Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09860782081684157823noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16974532.post-69759483122702601092007-08-01T09:22:00.000-04:002007-08-01T09:22:00.000-04:00Country Boy, personal experience does not trump in...Country Boy, personal experience does not trump informed analysis. Personal experience may tell you the world is flat, but informed analysis says otherwise. A doctor who claims he can bend spoons with his mind is not more believable because he is a doctor.<BR/><BR/>A single army medic in Iraq (the one who I was quoting) who presents no evidence to back up his claim is in no better position to know whether Iran is the primary cause of terrorism in Iraq than an informed citizen who keeps up with the news. Iran as the cause of problems in Iraq is laughably false propaganda by those who got us into this mess, trying to double down with an invasion of Iran. As I said, a solider is entitled to his or her opinion, but that opinion is no more valid than anyone else’s if the soldier’s personal experience does not produce actual data to support that opinion.<BR/><BR/>As I also mentioned, most soldiers believed that they were punishing Saddam for his role in 9/11 and that Iraq was an imminent threat to the US. These opinions are no more true or valid just because it was soldiers who believed them.<BR/><BR/>For the record, if “politicians” had listened to the military in the first place, we would not have gone into Iraq at all. Truly informed analysis at the time showed that Iraq was not a major terrorism threat and played no role in 9/11, nor supported Al Queda, and that invading the country would lead to a protracted and nasty occupation. It wasn’t <BR/>”politicians” who got us into this, but the Republican chickenhawks in the administration, and they abandoned the Powell Doctrine in doing so. What the “naïve” war critics did was try to prevent this fiasco from happening in the first place. Suggesting anything else is simply rewriting history to conform to your ideology.Dan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08387429717617727003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16974532.post-51213830937240898172007-07-09T21:35:00.000-04:002007-07-09T21:35:00.000-04:00you are dead right.http://s6.gladiatus.com/game/c....you are dead right.<BR/>http://s6.gladiatus.com/game/c.php?uid=58319Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com