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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
no. If you say it's a mistake to do something then you say that anyone who choses to do that is making a mistake. Otherwise you are saying it's a mistake but choosing to do it isn't a mistake. If you want to say that not everyone who is in the US military agrees with what we've done in Iraq, that's one thing, but there are some who willingly chose to invade Iraq.
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okay, well here's a question: How do we learn about mistakes? we usually dont know they are mistakes before we do them, but rather afterwards when the consequences start to take over.
"willingly chose to invade" - had they known what the consequences would have been, I wonder if they would still do it. Of course they are obligated to see it through now.
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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
First, to say invading Iraq was a mistake is to say that all those who volunteered to actually do the work made a mistake.
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If Obama said that invading Iraq was a mistake, nowhere does he say that "all who volunteered" was a mistake. you're just assuming that is what he meant, which may or may not be true. the point is, why cant you just take it at face value? why do you have to turn something into its most negative form?