History will judge us

[GTek]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12378109,00.html

Sometimes decisions must be made that may seem hasty but only time will tell. I think we did the right thing.

[Xcountry80]

what the jist of it.....
anymore than 2 paragraphs and it might as well be in swahili.

[GTek]

Originally posted by Xcountry80
what the jist of it.....
anymore than 2 paragraphs and it might as well be in swahili.

"Can we be sure that terrorism and weapons of mass destruction will join together?

"Let us say one thing. If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least, is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering.

"That is something I am confident history will forgive.

"But if our critics are wrong, if we are right, as I believe with every fibre of instinct and conviction I have that we are, and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in the face of this menace when we should have given leadership.

[MouseKiller]

I am confident history will exonerate us. The question is not if we did the right thing, but rather why it took us so long to get around to doing it.