The debate and accusations of "Bush Lied" are tossed around the media like confetti these days. I have had people pull the old "I told ya so" out of their liberal pockets and shove it in my face.
They forget about the mass graves that were found with women and children in them. Did Saddam kill them withy a pocket knife one by one. NO! We know has gassed the Kurds. Lethel use of poison gas on a large group of people to me clearly equals WMD.
I remember watching Colin Powell stand before the UN and play a tape of an intercepted conversation for the world to hear.
Here's how Powell introduced his case on Feb. 5, 2003:
POWELL: Let me begin by playing a tape for you. What you're about to hear is a conversation that my government monitored. It takes place on November 26 [2002], on the day before United Nations teams resumed inspections in Iraq. The conversation involves two senior officers, a colonel and a brigadier general, from Iraq's elite military unit, the Republican Guard.
TAPE TRANSCRIPT:
IRAQI COLONEL : About this committee that is coming with [U.N. nuclear weapons inspector] Mohamed ElBaradei.
IRAQI GENERAL : Yeah, yeah.
COL: We have this modified vehicle. What do we say if one of them sees it?
GEN: You didn't get a modified... You don't have a modified...
COL: By God, I have one.
GEN: Which? From the workshop...?
COL: From the al-Kindi Company
GEN: Yeah, yeah. I'll come to you in the morning. I have some comments. I'm worried you all have something left.
COL: We evacuated everything. We don't have anything left. [END OF POWELL TAPE EXCERPT]
What type of "modified vehicle" do Iraq war critics think Saddam's general was worried about? A souped-up 1967 Mustang?
And what, pray tell, do they think Saddam's colonel was referring to when he said, "We evacuated everything. We don't have anything left"?
Just because we have not found the type or amount of WMD's in Iraq, does not mean they were not there. The question we should be asking is not who is to blame but where did they go?
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But was he a threat to the US? Nobody disputes the awful evil deeds that Hussein committed. The relevant questions are 1) Was Iraq a dire threat to the US? 2) If not, did Bush, et al. know and deceive America? The fact is that Americans, including Congress, got behind the invasion because we were told that Iraq might have or soon acquire nukes. If that wasn't the case, and the Bush administration knew it wasn't, we invaded under false pretenses.
I would disagree with the reasons you cited for going to war. You are forgetting some important points.
Saddam had broken his treaty after the first Gulf war. He had invaded his neighbors and killed amny in his own country. He has tossed out the UN inspectors that he agree to. That is what caused "faulty inteligence".
Not to mention he had fired multiple time on US planes. If a country fires on our military forces, I consider that a threat.
Has used lethal gas weapons in the past. We had intercepted conversations that would make you belive they were hiding weapons and Saddam was not will to prove otherwise despite years on continued attempts.
This is the stuff that the public knows about. I have no idea what information is still classified.
I'm not out to defend a wrong decision. I'm also not will to accept that WMD's were never there. Not based on what I have seen.
The world was justified going to war and did so in the first Gulf War. The problem is we never finshed what we started. We left a brutal dictator at the helm and now we are paying the price.
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