".....Nothing. But absent a threat to the US, what concern of our government to invade Iraq?"
Actually, there was a threat to the US. Have you ever heard of Salmon Pac? A little training base in Iraq, close to Bagdhad, which had, according to witnesses, ongoing training sessions which included "how to sieze a Boeing 707, 727,or 747 with box cutters". Sound familiar? In addition, contrary to public opinion and media reports, there were NUMEROUS chemical agents found. One of the reasons not all of Hussein's "crack" troops were in the field attacking us is that a full battalion was encamped around an insecticide plant, protecting it. Why protect an insecticide plant you might ask? Well, perhaps it would be a good idea to check into what most insecticides actually are.....Nerve agents. It only takes a little more distillation to make them into effective HUMAN nerve agents. Hmmmmmmmm. Interesting.
In other words, did Bush lie, or, heaven forbid, is it the media and leftists telling us Bush lied? Remember the old Communist teaching, "if you tell a lie often enough, people will accept it for the truth....." Is there something here? Hmmmmm?
I don't incline to think Bush lied about WMD, but Chalabi's INC may have deceived the White House:
"In a chapter entitled "Saddam Hussein’s Support for International Terrorism," the White House paper claimed that, "Former Iraqi military officers have described a highly secret terrorist training facility in Iraq known as Salman Pak, where both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on hijacking planes and trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and assassinations." This allegation came from two INC-supplied defectors, Sabah Khalifa Khodada Alami, a former Iraqi army captain, and Brig. Gen. Abu Zeinab al Quairy, the purported commander of the training facility. Both men were rejected as unreliable by U.S. intelligence professionals. Nevertheless, the White House published their claims. Their claims, including suggestions that the September 11 hijackers may have been trained at the alleged facility, also appeared in the American and British media. After the invasion, the only training facility found at Salman Pak was determined by U.S. officials to have been used by Iraqi counter-terrorism units.
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