our president is a joke.

i'm sorry, but there's just no two ways about it.

The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak. In cases where there are serious doubts and questions, the presumption should be in the favor of life.

if this is true, why didn't we go that route in iraq? we went in favor of war on questionable intelligence. wait, he talks about it IN THE SAME GODDAMN PRESS CONFERENCE

[L]ast year I issued an executive order creating an independent commission to look at America's intelligence capabilities, especially our intelligence about weapons of mass destruction.

he means, of course, "i created a commission to explain why we never found wmds even though that was my administration's #1 selling point on the war, despite any of the democracy promotion bullshit that i've spouted since 2003.

well, what are his responses to their findings?

The men and women of our intelligence community work hard... The work they're doing is critical. We need to prevent terrorists from getting their hands on the weapons of mass murder they would like to use against our citizens.
The work of our intelligence community is extremely difficult work.

hey they work hard and its hard to do. nice.

it really doesn't change the fact that american soldiers have been wounded and lost lives in a war that was based on a false premise, and our president in that case chose to _not_ err on the side of life.

i disagree with our president on both his premises - we don't always have to err on the side of life especially when we don't know if the side we call 'life' is actually life, but we should err on the side of friggin caution when talking about massive wars in instable parts of the world.