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World News & World Report - reprinted at Real Politics:
Bush, Cheney and the administration have the truth on their side. Exhaustive and authoritative examinations of the prewar intelligence, by the bipartisan report of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004, by the Silberman-Robb Commission in 2005 and by the British commission headed by Lord Butler, have established that U.S. intelligence agencies, and the intelligence organizations of leading countries like Britain, France and Germany, believed that Saddam Hussein's regime was in possession of or developing weapons of mass destruction -- chemical and biological weapons, which the regime had used before, and nuclear weapons, which it was working on in the 1980s.
To the charges that Bush "cherry-picked" intelligence, the commission co-chaired by former Democratic Sen. Charles Robb found that the intelligence available to Bush but not to Congress was even more alarming than the intelligence Congress had.
The Silberman-Robb panel also concluded, after a detailed investigation, that in no instance did Bush administration authorities pressure intelligence officials to alter their findings.
Much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. But Bush didn't lie about it.
I have said it before, but I knew Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, and the move to pin the event to Iraq was a transparent snow job all through 2002 and early 2003. Saddam was a brutal thug, not a crazed zealot. Bush wanted Saddam and cooked the books to get him. It was obvious. If a semipolitical guy could see it plain as day, most other thinking folks could too. The folks who refuse to think? Well, they carried the day. By the way, Obama's take was almost exactly the same as mine. He knew it was a garbage war. Deflect all you like, the GOP led us into an unnecessary war, and they have the ballz to act the victims.
Oh, and they reelected the dude who did this:
I honestly doubt that Bush even knew the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam, let alone the difference between U-235 and U-238. He was unqualified to be making those sorts of determinations, which is why he outsourced all of that to his advisers - unfortunately, they turned out to be a pack of neocon vipers.
I have said it before, but I knew Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, and the move to pin the event to Iraq was a transparent snow job all through 2002 and early 2003. Saddam was a brutal thug, not a crazed zealot. Bush wanted Saddam and cooked the books to get him. It was obvious. If a semipolitical guy could see it plain as day, most other thinking folks could too. The folks who refuse to think? Well, they carried the day. By the way, Obama's take was almost exactly the same as mine. He knew it was a garbage war. Deflect all you like, the GOP led us into an unnecessary war, and they have the ballz to act the victims.
And they reelected the dude who did this:
Bush did not not cook the books--Saddam cooked the books. He admitted after being captured that he pursued a 'deterrence by doubt' strategy. Your major objection is that we took out a 'brutal thug' rather than a 'crazed zealot?'
I have said it before, but I knew Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, and the move to pin the event to Iraq was a transparent snow job all through 2002 and early 2003. Saddam was a brutal thug, not a crazed zealot. Bush wanted Saddam and cooked the books to get him. It was obvious. If a semipolitical guy could see it plain as day, most other thinking folks could too. The folks who refuse to think? Well, they carried the day. By the way, Obama's take was almost exactly the same as mine. He knew it was a garbage war. Deflect all you like, the GOP led us into an unnecessary war, and they have the ballz to act the victims.
Bush did not "cook the books." See the post above you (#301).
About 10 years ago, I didn't have much internet access to see arguments in the online political community. For those who did, how did conservatives defend GW after no WMDs were found in Iraq?
Bush wasn't a conservative, he was a neo-conservative. Look up the definition of neo-conservative and their agenda. War and interventionist foreign policy is a liberal idea. Always has been, still is. How do you defend Obama's war making? You know, the war's he started with the same exact logic the neo-con's used to get us into Iraq.
Bush did not not cook the books--Saddam cooked the books. He admitted after being captured that he pursued a 'deterrence by doubt' strategy. Your major objection is that we took out a 'brutal thug' rather than a 'crazed zealot?'
Well, we launched a ten year war against a thug who was not culpable in 9/11. Big, no MASSIVE, screwup. We don't launch wars against thugs. How the hell can you defend that? Sheesh, you folks have no shame, nor standards.
Bush did not "cook the books." See the post above you (#301).
Bush & Co. shaded the truth, and you damn well know it. Don't insult our intelligence. I am not that smart, and I saw it plain as a turd in the punchbowl. Go ahead and drink the punch, but I'll stick with the bottled beer.
Bush & Co. shaded the truth, and you damn well know it. Don't insult our intelligence. I am not that smart, and I saw it plain as a turd in the punchbowl. Go ahead and drink the punch, but I'll stick with the bottled beer.
Don't let any facts get in your eyes whatever you do!
Don't let any facts get in your eyes whatever you do!
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Do you honestly believe Saddam had ANYTHING to do with 9/11? It was self-evident he did not. Smearing Saddam with it was a set up, plain and simple. Saddam knew damn well the US capabilities. He knew it would end his scam. He was a criminal, not a global terrorist. Think about it.
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