WillRockwell

The decision to mobilize the US military was not made based on rumor, exaggeration, or something Saddam said. Supposedly the CIA had "hard evidence" that Saddam had WMD. The case for war was a "slam dunk". And yet, any "evidence" supposedly found by the CIA does not hold up to the most amateur inspection. Still, that flimsy evidence was massaged by the White House until it seemed unassailable, and evidence to the contrary was thrown out. Colin Powell was practically brainwashed with false information so he would stand up at the UN and put the stamp of credibility on a case for war which was fabricated.

Saddam was clever in holding off the Iranians using nothing but fantasy. George Bush instructed the CIA to craft that fantasy into an airtight excuse for war. The White House cannot be excused for being "misled" by false information.

It takes a lot of information to go to war, redundant, confirmatory, hard evidence. War is the final and most serious diplomatic option for a nation, to be undertaken only in the most extreme circumstances. This war was begun simply because Bush had the authority to start it, not because it was necessary. Thousands of young Americans died because Bush wanted to exercise power, wanted to be a "war president". That is inexcusable.

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Reverend_Hellh0und

Nonsense. Bush did not want to be a "War president" please, this is foolish.


Furthermore, there was mountains of evidence and as I called it way back when, a bluff. Hussein bluffed and it cost him. Stop defending him.

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buck

Also taken from the story:

But of course, just a few more months and he would have finally cooperated...

And, my husband really loves me, and promises he wont' ever do that again.

jamesrage

This "if only we would have waited a few months to talk things out peacefully" would have never happened. Did talking things out peacefully before we invaded Iraq get us anywhere? No it didn't work because Saddam thought we were not going to do anything and the longer we didn't do anything the more his belief we were bluffing was proved right.

If we never invaded Iraq the democrats and everyone else would still be claiming Saddam has WMDs.The democrats would have bashed Bush his entire presidency for not doing something about it while some of the republicans would have gave it a token mention. Then when Obama won the presidency only the republicans would be claiming Saddam has WMDs and we got to do something about it while the democrats claim it is not a big deal or start to act like they never believed Saddam had WMDs in the first place.

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WillRockwell

I don't recall "defending" Saddam Hussein, and you are lying when you say "Bush did not want to be a "War president". You are also lying when you say there was "mountains of evidence". Even the UN inspectors suspected there were no WMD, and they had no vast intelligence service to provide information, only on-site inspection. Bush may have been fooled by Cheney, and you may have been fooled but hey, that's a slam dunk.

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Reverend_Hellh0und

You sir, are lying.

Prove he wanted to be a war president or apologize for your slander.



If there was no evidence, then why did all these lefties think there were?

If The Bush Administration Lied About WMD, So Did These People -- Version 3.0 - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)

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jamesrage

Amazing what the Bush basher conspiracy theorist will claim. They have no room to bash the Obama is not a natural born citizen or Obama is a Kenyan conspiracy theorist

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WillRockwell

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush sets case as 'war president'

Proving your lies is like playing against Easy AI. Come on, is that all you got?

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Dezaad

Let's look at some other results, ones that are much more rock solid: The US is an almost bankrupt empire that can't afford sound economic policy all because we are constrained by the unnecessary spending on the Iraq war.

Both China and the US are now profoundly economically vulnerable due to the fact of China's overinvestment in US treasuries, and the US over-dependence on China's continued interest in them. A hiccup in the treasuries market will make this latest financial sector meltdown look like a walk in the park.

Results indeed.

Agent Ferris

Yay and then Saddam could still be in power and still sponsoring terrorism against U.S. interests.

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