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To: Jim 0216
I agree that Bush was looking for an excuse to go after Saddam because Iraq was the world's leading sponsor of terrorism at the time. The neo-cons thought this was a good idea for the larger war on terrorism (as did the rest of the so-called coalition of the willing).

But your phrase lied in terms of misrepresentation is flagrantly inappropriate. Everyone in the world intelligence community actually believed that Saddam had WMDs. And as I pointed out, we have pretty good evidence from the Senate testimony of the second-highest general in the Iraqi Air Force that Saddam did have WMDs but that he got the WMDs out of Iraq just before we invaded (fully preparing to get hit by chemical or biological weapons, by the way).

So, you really ought to leave off the completely unsupported accusation--one of the lying Dems' favorite talking points!-- against President Bush.

By the same token, Trump owes President Bush an apology. It will not be forthcoming from that Alinskyite, of course.

141 posted on 02/21/2016 3:44:08 PM PST by the_doc
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To: the_doc

Again, you fail to distinguish between usable WMD’s being in Iraq once upon a time which no one really disputes, and the known status of WMD’s in Iraq at the time Bush announced the invasion - BIG dispute about that.

Bush’s own Treasury Secretary has said that one of Bush’s first orders of business in 2001 as the new President was to invade Iraq and get Saddam. According to this staffer, Bush told his staff to find a rationale to invade.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush/

Doesn’t look like good faith to me. When GW did it, I thought he wanted to kill Saddam his own reasons. I felt like Iraq was GW’s personal war. Later I found out Saddam tried to take out his dad a few years before in Kuwait. So maybe that. I don’t give a sh*t what the Left thinks. If GW handed the Left something on a silver platter to attack him with, that’s GW’s fault.


142 posted on 02/22/2016 9:43:38 AM PST by Jim W N
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