It is worth noting, however, that when Saddam was captured and interrogated, he told his interrogators that he had intended to seek revenge on Kuwait for its cooperation with the U.S. by invading again at a propitious time.
I have spent considerable time in the last week looking for verification of this claim online, and have nothing. Can someone please help me out? Thanks.
The claim was that Saddam had WMD.
Then we went in, and found WMD.
But Bush kept it real quiet.
So the press kept saying that Bush lied about it, and there were no WMD.
And Bush kept his mouth shut all during his presidency, and afterwards.
I have a hard time really understanding why that was done.
this does indeed appear to be a worthwhile article to post.
regrettably I can’t help you much because the article is not available for normal people to read
(disclosure: we did once subscribe to the WSJ, for many years in fact, but quit when we discovered they’d started to cheat us via their ‘automatic billing’... hopefully that was an isolated error but their promised refund did not fully pay back the money they took so we stayed quit)
Voted for Bush twice. Still the fact that 19 Saudis who were financed and inspired by the Saudi government supported Wahhabi, hijacked four American airliners, killed over three thousand Americans and caused well over $3 trillion in damages to the US economy. It remains a shameful embarrassment that not only were the decadent Saudis not held accountable but Bush invaded the wrong country at colossal human and material cost to the country. The blunder made possible the vile Obama Presidency. Sorry but if the Saudis had hijacked Chinese airliners and did the damage to China, the Chinese would not have invaded Iraq.
Bush went into Iraq because they were doable, they would welcome us with flowers, oil would pay for it, and they were partners in 9/11. Besides we took out the enemy of Iran that we now want to go to war with.
He is a one worlder.. as is all his family...
I never heard him speak of america as a republic..
ALWAYS.. he speaks of america as a DEMOCRACY...
Which it isn't.. He is basically a democrat.. as all his family..
AND closely resembles Alfred E. Neuman...
MAybe why he was chosen by the GOPe...
NYT article “In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.”
I have strong beliefs that Saddam did intend to be chief high honcho of the Arabic world. As such he was on a path to get rid of Saudi power and influence. The Bushes who were kissing the backside of Saudi royalty could not let such a game changer happen. So the two wars were needed not only as to oil supplies but for preservation of Saudi family power and control. If anyone takes this history as ‘Bush bashing’ so be it.
Meanwhile, obama dances on the constitution while yapping about a pen and a phone, and NOBODY.SAYS.A.WORD. Except to call you a racist if you object.
May God put a speedy stop to it already.
Why would you try to defend a man who will not defend himself or any conservative or conservative cause?
from antiwar slogan to journalistic fact.
Neither of which, has any relation to the truth...
Saddam was an idiot. He was obstructing the WMD inspectors while trying to hide the fact that he had basically nothing but old gas shells. He deserved what he got for playing poker with the US.
I wish Bush would publish a memoir explaining his thinking and objectives about the second Iraq war. The real objective of the war was not the WMDs, it was regime change. The war itself was only a means to an end: The creation of the first stable democracy in the Middle East outside of Israel. It was a noble experiment, and it was done in a terrible cost in American lives.
But the experiment in democracy ultimately failed, and that failure fell squarely upon the people of Iraq. Sadly, it appears that democracy is simply not sustainable in a culture whose primary organizing structure is the tribe.
All the WMD hoo-hah is missing the point of the war. It was primarily an exercise in democracy building, and it should be remembered as such.
Was it worth it? That is for historians to decide. But the WMD thing was only secondary to Bush’s real goals. Like I said, I wish he’d publish something about it, for history if nothing else.
Just because Dumbo lies and has done for his entire time in government, doesn’t mean that President Bush lied....
I would rather have President Bush back in office than have to look at what this dumbo idiot has done to our country...
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This one needs its own thread too, I guess...
Bookmarked.