Saddam Hussein is the $500 ice cream cone

[maggrwaggr]

I can't remember who came up with the analogy of the $500 ice cream cone. It was someone here on DU. Please claim credit if you read this.

But basically it's this: Sure, an ice cream cone might look good, taste good, be exactly what you want. But what if it costs $500?

That's what capturing Saddam is --- the $500 ice cream cone.

Was it really worth 200 billion dollars, 500 dead American soldiers, 5000 injured American soldiers and countless dead and maimed Iraqi civilians?

If one of your family members was dead because of Bush's goal of capturing Hussein, would you feel it was all worth it? Would you have been happy yesterday?

Also, capturing Hussein doesn't prove one bit that Iraq was ever a threat to the United States. Which was the reason we supposedly went to war.

What's really bizarre to me is the innocence of the American people: 54 percent of them, according to a CNN poll yesterday, think that we're still gonna find those WMD's!

Man, that's blind optimism.

[boxster]

1. I don't think "innocence" is the right word.

What's really bizarre to me is the innocence of the American people: 54 percent of them, according to a CNN poll yesterday, think that we're still gonna find those WMD's!

How about ignorance?

Apathy?

Blind faith?

Disinterest?

I can think of a lot of words that seem to apply better than "innocence"! Why 50%+ of them still approve of Bush is a complete mystery to me.

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[maggrwaggr]

2. a shameless kick

for a busy night :)

:kick:

[boxster]

4. I guess that people who rather talk about who is bashing whom.

I can't believe the number of people who think that capturing Saddam somehow makes it "all worth it" regarding the human loss. Nothing can justify this unjustifiable war.

The thought that thousands of American soldiers were killed or seriously injured and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed because of this is aggravating.

And for what? So Halliburton could make a profit this year? Ugh.

Your post makes some very good points. Unfortunately, the focus of late seems to be bashers and the bashers who bash them. :eyes:

[St. Jarvitude]

3. *sigh*

It's so painful to see how manipulative the media (especially cable + RADIO) is, spreading Bush*'s lies, and convincing over half of the American people that there will be WMDs found in Iraq, and even that Hussein was the one behind the September 11th terrorist attacks!

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Speaking of which, whatever happened to that search for that guy... uhhhh, what's his face, the dude with the beard... Omama bin Ramen or something, right? I haven't seen him on FoxNews in such a long time! I wonder why... oh, right, Hussein was behind the attacks... 'least that's what Rush tells me when I'm driving my Patriotic Trailblazer around... oh yeah, this damn hippie French-loving 'Murika-hatin' terraist told me maybe I should take my flags down cuz he said they're like rags... damn hippie.

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My heart tells me that the average Joe Schmoe isn't like that, but day by day I keep finding more people who think JUST like that. :mad: