There has been too much of this kind of talking about the president and the war and Saddam.  I read this today, and I wanted to scream.  Harold, stop this.

Harold Ford sort of ties 9/11 to Saddam

“I support this war in Iraq. I supported it from the very beginning for one reason. Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Now, there are those who criticize and quarrel with this, and make the point over and over again that perhaps we shouldn’t have done it the way we’ve done it, and I would agree. But I wouldn’t blame the president, or anybody else for that matter, from waking up on September 12th and wondering aloud what would happen if Saddam Hussein and bin Laden married.”

“It would be very easy for us to sit back in the comfort of our own homes and say, Well, one is secular and one is religious and they won’t . It would be very easy for us to think that 9/11 wouldn’t happen, but it did.”

“Bush’s “instinct” had been right, said Ford, who has visited Iraq three times in the last two years and plans a fourth visit, but there is “a lot of room for change” in how the president pursues operations in Iraq. “I love my president. I love him personally,” Ford said. “But he’s just wrong. – wrong for not being willing to admit that we’ve made some mistakes….It was right to take him [Saddam] down but wrong to think that we can’t right this course.”

Talking this way is non-productive.  Ford bothers me with his words sometime. I know I don’t live in Tennessee, but his votes affect me as well.  Hardly anyone ties 9/11 to Saddam now, but he just apparently did.  He should know better.

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