Sadaam never had WMDs in 2003. He was lying. Why? Saddens biggest enemy was Iran the Shites and the Kurds. If they knew he didn’t have WMDS, his regime would be in jeopardy. I’m not saying Bush was lying, he wasn’t. Sadaam was the one lying. Iraq never believed the USA would invade. It was another in Sadaams long line of miscalculations.
If there had never been an Iraq war Obama would not have won, mostly likely Hilary would have. Also it is a 100% certainly that George Allen would have won in 2006. We could have stop Hillarycare2 with the filibuster. Conrad Burns, Mike Dewine and Jim Talent most likely lost cuz of the war. Add Norm Cileman to the list too. Instead of 40 senators we’d have had 45 minimum. Enough to stop any stimulus and any socialized medicine. I also think there would have been friction between Hillary and Pelosi that would have prevented congress and the white house from accomplishing much.
It not cowardly to take a second look at the war and ask ourselves if things would have been better had there been no war.
He certainly had chemical weapons before 2003.
He refused to show how he had gotten rid of them.
What did he do with them, and when?
So, 500 tons of yellow cake is not WMD or planned for WMD? Or did you conveniently forget about that one too. Just in case you are wondering, it ended up being shipped to Canada for some idiotic reason and that was after Saddam was ousted.
And I suppose you will have no problem facing the survivors of Halabja to tell them that Saddam did not have WMD’s. It takes just the size of a briefcase to hold all the precursors to produce WMD’s but are you also self induced to believe he didn’t have them until the bombs came crashing down. One quick dump into the Tigris and all is forgiven in your world.
Then if you really want a capper on your crap, go to the vets with what was called Gulf War Syndrome and tell them the same thing face to face. I know several personaly if you would like to start a list.