Posted on 12/15/2011 4:36:11 AM PST by tobyhill
Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw recounted some of the rationale behind why the Bush administration believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction before the invasion of Iraq, even noting that President Clinton had also believed in the presense of WMD.
Brokaw related evidence that the Iraqi dictator had tried to deceive Iran into believing he possessed WMD, and noted that the people of Iraq lived in "sheer terror" and were afraid to talk to the NBC anchor when he visited the country during Saddam Hussein's reign.
After host Piers Morgan asked Brokaw about the difference between America's approach to the war effort in Libya versus its more direct invasion of Iraq, Brokaw noted that a distinction between what the U.S. faced in the two countries was that Saddam Hussein "had the iron fist over that entire country." Brokaw:
Saddam Hussein really had the iron fist over that entire country, had an enormous military that was there. I was in Iraq several times before the war began, and the sheer terror of people in the streets of Iraq afraid to talk to you in any way because they didn't know whether they would be eliminated and the kind of terror techniques that he unleashed on people, the most innocent people in Iraq for the smallest, slight however he perceived it. So those are two different circumstances.
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Oh, come on folks, we know from people like Michael Moore that Saddam Hussein was a kindly, beneficent, merciful father figure to his people. He only put them through shredders because they asked for it. He didn’t want to do it, they made him do it. Just because he murdered about one million of his own people, gassed the Kurds, started a war with Iran, invaded Kuwait, supported Islamic terrorism, and tried to have Bush I assassinated is no reason to dislike the man. (smirk)
The reason being, of course, that Saddam DID have WMD; anyone who doubts it is invited to consult “Seal Target Geronimo” by Chuck Pfarrer, former officer of Seal Team Six.
That claims of Iraqi WMD came to nothing is a fraud which is still being perpetuated by members of the American media who love to bash Bush.
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