Posted on 08/16/2019 2:34:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The GOP of the Bushes, Kristols, Podhoretzes, Kochs, and the National Review is dead. But they’re still in denial about that fact. We’re witnessing the last pathetic gasps of a dying breed. Mercifully.
“If you scratch a never trumpet you ALWAYS find somebody who still thinks the Iraq War was a great idea....”
And I’m one of them. I was there, a few times, and know why we were needed there as what we did I’m sure saved a lot of lives, there and here. The real information about what happened in the middle east will never be released as long as there is a terrorist threat still out there and sensitive information can still be linked. An example that people think they know is about the large detonation of the Kamisiyah ammunition depot which exposed over 5000 troops to sarin and a horrible gas developed in the 1950’s called VX nerve gas that was given to Saddam during the Carter administration for his efforts toward Iran. There was also a huge shipment after the war of enriched nuclear cake that was shipped to Canada to be re-enriched from weapons grade to industrial grade that included the last of it in 2008. That shipment was 550 metric tons.
Tack that on to the trips by Ben Laden for treatment to Baghdad a few times, and you’ve got a real problem. Furthermore, Saddam fired missiles into Israel during the Gulf War, 1990-91, that are reported to be conventional. But there was a plan in the works that if Saddam felt he was losing power, there was a list of places to hit with bio and chemical warheads involved.
On one of the tapes broadcast over radio, the Iraqi dictator told the visiting Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in April 1990 — four months before Saddam invaded Kuwait — that “Iraq has chemical weapons it successfully used against the Iranians” during the eight-year Iran-Iraq War, “and Iraq won’t hesitate to use them against Tel Aviv.”
This guy was a world war about to happen. And the information everyone had ended up with the support of 23 nations and with four others sending troops downrange and NATO. Denmark, United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland along with us. A lot of places, and people, were on the edge of oblivion. He needed to be taken out of power.
And they did the same with Ben Laden. But they just shot him.
rwood
“They THINK they can....”
I believe the words here are “media delusions.” They aren’t doing anything they can succeed with. They are just trying to create havoc during the administration to make the voters think improprieties are there to confuse and fool them. Just making noise to get people uncomfortable. This is when Trump should display his successes. They will far outweigh liberal/socialist lies if shown. And people will realize the safety and security of the trump administration....i.e., success.
rwood
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.