good grief. i hate vanities but, the continued repetition of disinformation by bush apologists on iraq has to be answered.
iraq had no nuclear wmd. period.
the bush justification to the American public for going into iraq was mobile nuclear wmd. everyone has chemical “wmd.” chemical was never a justification for total war. and alone would not have been accepted as such by the American people and certainly not myself.
the nuclear talk turned out to be all hussein bluster and provocation. period. he had some chemical capability. and again everybody has chemical capability. the nuclear was a complete sham created by the state to get into iraq. why?
one of crowning glories of President Trump is that he realized this early on, and didn’t buy into the “rationale” for the iraq war. he panned it from the get go.
Some of us were there. Some of us found stuff. Some of us cannot tell you anything more.
The politicians spin and weave what they need to IOT fit the narrative and protect the improbables.
None of that changes what was ID’d tracked and then lost track of by UN inspectors for a decade prior to OIF.
Why is it so hard to follow the facts on record but so easy to dismiss them when the narrative changes?
Was OIF worth it? Well, depends on who you are. If you invested blood and time there, seeing people liberated and excited about it, maybe. If you are just bloviating about things you don’t know nor ever can, then probably not.
The tragedy is that a free IRQ was handed over to ISIS by the follow-on administration ( along with most of SYR, Egypt, all of Libya and several other areas in that region-ad remains so to this day. That is the worlds greatest tragedy since WWII and the fall of the Iron curtain....