I never said that. I said that it was foolish if not outright lying to spin a yard about WMD in IRAQ. There were NO WMDs found - it was all a hoax and a lie. The proof of this was that there were no WMDs found in our 17+ years of being there.
I guess my question to the war's supporters in 2020 is this: Was it worth it? Was it worth the $11 trillion we spent/will spend to satisfy some cowboy's wild goose chase for non existent WMDs? Was it worth the 4000+ young soldiers cut down in the prime of their life? Was it worth the tens of thousands who were wounded and now require a lifetime of hospital services. That's not to mention the hundreds of thousands of Iraq innocent civilians who were killed or wounded. Again was it worth it?
As for the rest of your response, well those were at best presented as tangential arguments. Bush and his neo-con buddies never aggressively pressed that point because they knew it would never fly with the America people. The overwhelming thrust of the pro-war argument at the time centered around WMDs which didn't exist.
I wouldn’t be so sure about it being a lie if I were you: One of Saddam Hussein’s top generals did in fact indicate that Saddam had in fact relocated said WMDs to Syria and Jordan, gave full details about it, and if anything, it’s the leftist press who lied despite his directly telling them about it. Don’t believe me? Read this:
https://theblacksphere.net/2017/04/leftist-myth-busted-saddam-moved-wmd-from-iraq-to-syria/
And for the record, Ion Mihai Pacepa also agreed with that notion as well, and he’s no Neocon (and if anything he FLED the USSR to get away from Communists and Neocons).
“There were NO WMDs found...”
Actually several tons were found. They were old and probably useless but they were found.
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