If Bush and Schwartzenegger had found Saddam’s WMD they would have been considered heroes. There was widespread consensus at the time that the WMD existed and it was appropriate to neutralize it based on the risk factor. The mistake was to then think that we could invest US lives to democratize people that were not culturally ready for it.
Isolationism is not an option in a world with ICBMs and nuclear bombs. The evidence for Iran’s nuclear weapons program and solid and the risk of doing nothing is greater than neutralizing it now. What we don’t want to repeat is the exercise in nation building. We can offer to facillitate a peaceful transition, but we can’t change a culture to a Western democracy.
Hell we can’t even get these MANY cultures to assimilate HERE in this nation YET these MORONS expect them to change once we free them in their own nations!!! Look at the damage that has been done to the European culture and WE are headed right there with them!! We are running around the damn world trying to implement western culture YET we can’t even maintain western culture in our OWN backyards……..SPIT!!!!
No, there wasn’t. There was widespread propaganda that had been spread by people in government who knew it was 100% bullsh!t.