Posted on 07/17/2018 7:18:32 AM PDT by God luvs America
This is not an anti-Iraq war rant; i fought in the streets in 2003 with Freepers & groups like Protest Warrior counter protesting the "peace protestors". Nor is this a rant against law enforcement- my dad was NYPD for almost two decades. Rather this is a reminder with facts for those who believe we should just blindly follow our politicized "intelligence" agencies. The same intelligence operations telling us russia interfered in our elections:
1- told us Iraq possessed WMD 2- never connected the dots in the lead up to 9-11; the worst terrorist attack on US solid 3- dismissed evidence on hand about terrorist attacks and mass killings such as the tsarnaev brothers, the Pulse nightclub killer and the Stoneman Douglas killer.
So remember this when the same people who marched in the streets yelling "What do we want? DEAD COPS! When do we want them? NOW!!" while obama sat in the WH saying the protests must go on, try and lecture you about treason...
I think we need to totally revamp and drain the real enemies. The intelligence communities which have turned Anti-American and the corrupt media who gets their marching orders form them.
These are the same Bozo’s who failed to see the fall of the Soviet Union.
Excellent point. They had me convinced but obviously duped Colin Powell and W
Indeed, there were plenty of WMDs in Iraq. Saddam also moved most of them to Syria before the invasion.
Iraq did have WMDs. Tons of stuff. International inspectors had known about it for years, had seen it and knew where it was stored. Some of it was used on US troops in 2003 and later.
What this type of story was actually about was the claim that nobody ever found any material that wasn’t already known about.
Exactly.
Remember the convoys to Syria right before the bombing raids started?
Of course they had WMD. W, being the weak ass punk he is, gave a date of the invasion well in advance. That gave the leaders of Iraq plenty of time to hide and move stuff.
Did anyone really believe it would just be sitting on the shelf for us to find when we got there?
They made us choose between Cindy Sheehan and George W. Bush, between Obongo and McCain and Romney. I hope Trump immediately announces something to trigger the hell out of them even more.
The State Department and the CIA have always put their own interests first, not Americas.
Iraq had WMD.
Our guys found tons of them.
Actually, they did find WMD and the factory that made them. They re-defined it as “agricultural pesticide” despite the fact that the factory manager was an Iraqi general, the factory was guarded by Iraqi infantry, and was not on the list of sites provided to the inspectors.
Then, at each and every ammo dump, when they found barrels of nerve agent, again after a few days they would announce “our mistake, its just agricultural pesticide”. And thus, they redefined it out of existence.
At a time when Bush’s presidency hung in the balance on that very issue, I always wondered, who has that power, to redefine it out of existence?
Agreed on troops finding sarin gas in Iraq. And those of us who stayed home forget how often the media would tell us our troops were attacked by sarin gas because Bush was incompetent, then a week later tell us we still haven’t found WMD’s because Bush is a liar. Later they’d tell us our troops were attacked by mustard gas because Bush was incompetent. Then the media would tell us again we still haven’t found WMD’s because Bush lied. Over & over. Then is was Bush let Saddam sell his WMD’s to Syria because Bush is incompetent. Then a week later it was back to there were no WMD’s because Bush is a liar. And of course, nobody in the Dim media reported on the U.S. allowing Canada to buy Saddam’s uranium stockpile from the new Iraq government.
The Iraq war was when I went from thinking the Dim media was just biased to realizing the Dim media were nothing but propagandists.
LOL! I used that exact comment last night about “Who you gonna trust?”.
While Iraq did not have nukes, it wasn’t from lack of trying. The book written by Gen. Georges Sada, Iraq’s air force chief, he states that centrifuges and other equipment necessary for the production of nuclear weapons were spirited into Syria’s Baakaa Valley disguised as flood relief supplies. There was also 500 tons of “yellowcake,” unrefined uranium from Mali. However, the ever-unbiased media screamed blue murder because ready-to-go bombs were not found,
Yep. And the recent gassing episodes in Syria are interesting when you remember seeing the convoys leaving Iraq and going into Syria before the war.
That being said, I have no doubt that there are Obama/Dem operatives in our intelligence agencies that would give false evidence to achieve a political objective. Are there enough patriots still in these agencies to call them out on it? I don't know.
The way this Russia collusion mess has been played, and the contempt shown towards Congressional oversight, gives me a sick feeling the answer is no, unless we have whistle blowers we don't know about.
Was it worth invading?
good grief. i hate vanities but, the continued repetition of disinformation by bush apologists on iraq has to be answered.
iraq had no nuclear wmd. period.
the bush justification to the American public for going into iraq was mobile nuclear wmd. everyone has chemical “wmd.” chemical was never a justification for total war. and alone would not have been accepted as such by the American people and certainly not myself.
the nuclear talk turned out to be all hussein bluster and provocation. period. he had some chemical capability. and again everybody has chemical capability. the nuclear was a complete sham created by the state to get into iraq. why?
one of crowning glories of President Trump is that he realized this early on, and didn’t buy into the “rationale” for the iraq war. he panned it from the get go.
I fear America’s own massive, unelected, permanent, debit-racked bureaucracy (especially intel and Fed. law enforcement) for more than Russia, China or Iran.
One look at John Brennan, and you know they are bastards.
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