“Or does he expect us to believe that Hussein had some, used them, and then got rid of the remainder?”
That appears to be exactly what happened. We did find some but they were old, degraded, and were probably more dangerous to Saddam’s army.
But that’s beside the point. Invading Iraq was stupid. A colossal blunder. And I say that as someone who supported it at the time. Saddam was an evil SOB for sure. But he kept a tight lid on the crazies. Once he was gone Iraq fractured into tribalism turned into a **** show.
Bush thought we could attract all the “bad guys” to Iraq and kill them. The problem is that there’s an endless supply of bad guys. Unless we reduce the entire ME to radioactive glass we will never get “all” of them.
Islam is the problem and Bush was either too stupid or to cowardly to say it and deal with it.
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Drivelous sour grapes
I’m with you. I supported it at the time, but that was wrong.
I hypothesize that the Iraq War was not a war of occupation or total destruction but a geopolitical war meant to block Iranian terrorism from expanding into Iraq, thus threatening Saudi Arabia (an ally). WMD’s were just a contrived justification for that war. I also hypothesize that 9/11 was contrived by the Saudis and Israel to provide a “Pearl Harbor” justification for war in the Mideast. I am not keen on justifying the Iraq War, but that war needs to be seen as serving geopolitical ends. The Viet Nam war was the same: a war to block Communist expansion (via Domino Theory) into Southeast Asis. Contrary to everything we read on the Right and Left, the VN War was a success in protecting Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, from Communist Chinese expansion. Now Biden just wants to hand over Taiwan?