Invading Iraq resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands civilians. Destabilizing the Middle East.
Who's to say the hundreds of thousands of civilians who have died in Syria over the past few years might not have been saved if the Western powers had taken more action? Does that make their leaders "profoundly stupid"?
Depending on them, it might seem or have seemed clever.
I think it is dangerous to confuse “clever” and “evil”.
That's not whataboutism.
Sounds exactly like whataboutism.
Look, Bush knew confidential information that no one outside the government could and still made those decisions.
Stop trying to deflect this with some unrelated person who wasn't in the government, had no security clearance, and had nothing to do with the invasion. It's simply irrelevant.
Nope. This is simple inductive reasoning.
> Look, Bush knew confidential information that no one outside the government could and still made those decisions.
Yes, and they were probably reasonable decisions, given what he knew at the time.
>Stop trying to deflect this with some unrelated person who wasn't in the government, had no security clearance, and had nothing to do with the invasion. It's simply irrelevant.
It would be irrelevant if people who also don't have information no one outside the government could are using the Iraq war to draw conclusions about Bush's intelligence.