Remember it was the “intelligence community” that told us there were WMDs in Iraq - even though UN inspectors on the ground couldn’t find any.
For the past three years, the “intelligence community” has been telling us Trump is in cahoots with the Russians.
I’m not going to be burned twice by these deepstaters.
Bush wanted to invade during the fall of 2002 (IIRC) so that they would have six months in the milder Iraqi winter to wage war instead of the harsh summer. Liberals in Congress and at the UN nagged Bush not to invade until Congress could be satisfied and he could arrange for other countries to share in the invasion. That took six months.
I still believe that was enough time for Hussein to have his WMDs dismantled and transfered to Syria and Libya so he could hoodwink the West into believing he had none. It was reported during the Iraq War that trace evidence of WMDs had been found in a few military sites.
It always seemed fishy that Libya would suddenly volunteer that they had WMDs and would destroy them immediately when pressured by the U.S. - Libya never said where they got those WMDs from but they seemed to be readily willing to give them up, making me think they weren’t theirs to begin with.
By the time this information made its way to the western media, the “Bush Lied” theme was already in full force so there was no information that was going to move the liberals and their media to admit Bush might have been correct in his early assessment.
Maybe I’m naive but I just don’t think Bush would commit troops to invade Iraq and Colin Powell wouldn’t trot out spy satellite photos they knew to be false just to gin up a war. I could be wrong. But I still am unwilling to condemn either without stronger proof that they knowingly went to war under false pretenses or to stop Hussein from financing suicide bombers in Israel, which he was doing prior to the invasion and stopped soon afterwards.
“Remember it was the “intelligence community” that told us there were WMDs in Iraq - even though UN inspectors on the ground couldn’t find any.”
One of those “UN” inspectors was an American Marine, Scott Ritter. Ritter kept telling anyone who would listen that there was no sign of WMDs in Iraq.
Freepers love to argue that there were WMDs, but they had been trucked out to Syria. If so they apparently weren’t very dangerous WMDs since Assad lost half of his country in the years since then.
Dubya sent the 1,000 man Iraq Survey Group into postwar Iraq to find WMDs. They spent a year, and the only WMDs they found were old chemical artillery shells from pre-Gulf War One. All of Saddam’s old manufacturing facilities were decrepit with no sign that they had been used since the first Gulf War.
All of that is a bit murky. I recall Sadam refusing and delaying access to UN inspectors.
Personally, I was for destroying Iraq and establishing airbases for strategic offensive operations in the region. Iraq would provide us bases to surround Iran on all sides. At no time was I for nation rebuilding. Quickly, brutally lay waste to our enemies and get out ASAP with the least amount of American human and financial loss.
Not that I want it to mean anything, but I'd sooner trust the "intelligence" community over UN "inspectors."
I'm with you. A few years ago, this would have made me mad. But after the last three years I do not trust the “intelligence community”.
I just hope Dubya was as fooled as I was.
Quotes/recordings of Democrats on Iraq + WMD’s
(Weapons of Mass Destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwqh4wQPoQk