ISIS In Iraq Find Saddam Hussein’s WMD Stockpiles Of Chemical Weapons… George W Bush Was Right?
Hate to break this to you, but the WMD’s that were found in Iraq dated back to the Iran/Iraq war, and we helped them get them... Saddam was not mass manufacturing new WMD’s... there were no mobile manufacturing stations, or any of the other things that Powell presented to the UN.
We didn’t go into Iraq because Saddam had some WMD’s we helped give him decades before, we went in because we were told he was manufacturing them and harboring and aiding terrorists.
The Neocons trumped up evidence to this end.
That’s the long and short of it. Trying to argue that Bush was right about Iraq is a foolish argument to try to be making 13 years later. We spent trillions, destablised an entire region and Iraq is virtually a failed state at this point and a haven for terrorists far worse than the Taliban.... I supported the war at the time, but there is no doubt that it was not worth it.
Does that make BUSH personally a liar? No, given the evidence we assume he was given, I would have made the same choice... I would hope I would have made different ones after the hot war was over, so that we didn’t wind up losing the peace, but that’s a different conversation. However, there is no way you can make the argument that the intelligence presented as reliable to justify it at the time was not known by some to be flawed and unreliable and presented at reliable anyway.