Absolutely. People do get to change their minds, for any reason they want. Cheney as Cheney can think or do anything he wants (like, loving his gay daughter and her child, despite the general republican views on that sort of thing).
But for governments to change positions on something, it should be more than just a person's whim. One has to ask, what significant acts of aggression did Iraq undertake in the interceding period to justify this change? The Whitehouse says they had nothing to do with 9/11, sure, they broke the no-fly zone enough to deserve bombing back in 1998, but even that wasn't too serious.
See, a suspicious person like me thinks they were at least partially pushed into it by the powers of industry. 'sup military-industrial-prison-complex. I don't for one second think leaving Saddam in power would be been a great idea, but I think, perhaps, in retrospect, it would have been better for everyone than what's going on now.
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But for governments to change positions on something, it should be more than just a person's whim. One has to ask, what significant acts of aggression did Iraq undertake in the interceding period to justify this change? The Whitehouse says they had nothing to do with 9/11, sure, they broke the no-fly zone enough to deserve bombing back in 1998, but even that wasn't too serious.
See, a suspicious person like me thinks they were at least partially pushed into it by the powers of industry. 'sup military-industrial-prison-complex. I don't for one second think leaving Saddam in power would be been a great idea, but I think, perhaps, in retrospect, it would have been better for everyone than what's going on now.