You guys say "I was only n years old" like that somehow makes it all right. Are you implying that it's impossible to have a well-informed opinion when you're barely legal voting age? You should be saying "I wanted to vote for Bush, but that was back when I didn't have a clue about the world."

By the way, it's been about 7 years since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 and about 5 years since Iraq became a target. I was 14 at the time of the 9/11 attacks. I don't know when exactly you were 17, but it's not like there haven't been enough notable events that might have made you question the Bush authority. Unless you also agreed with, say, first deploying a team of weapons inspectors who find absolutely no evidence to back up an invasion and then invade anyway

Sorry, I know that this is an old post. Anyhow, this made me think, wasn't Abraham Lincoln an atheist?

I dunno but he said this!
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."

- Abraham Lincoln, American president (1809-1865).

I believe this was in reference to a conversation about the separation of Church and State, though. Taken in that context, that is not necessarily an Atheist quote, simply a secular one combined with a non-denominational Christian one. It would be nice if someone could find a full record of that conversation, but since the Atheist movement has picked up on it, they have tried extensively to keep only that line.

If Huckabee becomes president I am going back to Poland

Regime change, on its own, is not something you'd go to war for. Nor are Iraq's poor human rights record, their attacking of U.S. planes, or "spreading democracy", as it was called.

The belief of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destructions was the meat of the rationale for invasion. The evidence presented to solidify that belief was widely criticized even before the invasion, and the weapons inspectors never found any hard evidence leading to said weapons.

We've never found conclusive evidence that supports the claim of Saddam Hussein cooperating with al-Qaeda. He might have been a supporter of the group, but that's something different.

While it's true that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a terrible country that routinely abused human rights, that on its own is no reason to go to war for.

By the way, I've actually never heard of Saddam Hussein trying to kill George W. Bush, when did that happen? I know that some guy once threw a grenade at him that didn't explode, but that didn't exactly seem like an organized attempt.

As far as weapons of mass destruction, Saddam said that he had, indeed, dismantled all of the WMDs that were in his country when the evidence was acquired of them some decade or more ago. He did say, however, that he kept the facilities needed to make them and that should the need arise he would not have hesitated to reinstitute the program if Iran became a serious and aggressive threat to his country.

Well, y'see, you know how everyone has been shitting their bricks about the primaries this election? Perhaps if you (all of you) had been more active in the 2004 primaries, we wouldn't have all these problems we do today. I'm just sayin' is all.