Hey Frowny, let's assume you are a member of congress for a minute. *snort* Your president and his chief of staff, secretary of defense, vice president, and attorney general advise you that Iraq and Saddam have nuclear weapons. They are a Muslim country and it's right after 9/11. Iraq and Saddam has hated the US ever since Desert Storm and are obviously a direct threat to the US.
You are asked to vote on whether or not we should go on the offensive to eliminate the threat.
Toss hindsight completely aside and consider that the US public is scared and want their elected officials to protect the country.
How would you vote? (again, no hindsight!!!)
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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