Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.
This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
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