but somehow Saudi Arabia didn’t get touched. And there was no one in the Bush administration that knew that Shia and Sunni hated each other and this would explode into Civil War? We are the public. We weren’t expected to know that. They were. and if it took five hundred thousand troops to secure the border and prevent civil war then we shouldn’t have gone with two hundred thousand men. and we shouldn’t have left the job in Afghanistan up to war lords in the beginning.
My recollection is that WMD had little or nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq. I recall Iraq continually thwarting the UN WMD inspections, violating the no-fly zone often threatening our aircraft, twelve years of Security Council deliberations as Iraq tried to stretch out the inevitable, thumbing their nose at the US as they really didn’t believe the US had the guts to invade, and much more.
My very first posts on FR were expressing my opinion that invading Iraq was unnecessary at that moment. That Saddam was in check and at least he was not a Radical Muslim. I was under the opinion that Afghanistan wasn’t over yet, as many had thought.
I got ripped apart by every single response.
The premise is BS, because everything we know now we knew then.