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So, you are saying that the remedy to not finding or accounted for WMD materials and weapons was a full-scale invasion? Why not just let the UN weapons inspectors continue their work?
It should be clear to anyone paying attention, Bush wanted to invade and invented the rationale.
Bush had to start the invasion before the Summer came when the temperatures skyrocketed. A delay would have put the invasion off for months, and he was worried that he wouldn't be able to sustain the interest levels he had generated with his constant harangue about WMDs and threats from a Tin Horn Dictator.
Blix was in the way of Bush's desire to be a "War President". He had to go.
So, you are saying that the remedy to not finding or accounted for WMD materials and weapons was a full-scale invasion? Why not just let the UN weapons inspectors continue their work?
Actually, the invasion had more to do with deposing Saddam Hussein. Clinton signed the authorization of the use of the US Military for that purpose in the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act.
No, you are wrong. The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 stated that it is the policy of the United States to support democratic movements within Iraq. Had the Act authorized U.S. Military force to remove Hussein, Bush wouldn't have needed the authorization he got Congress to approve to use military force against the Iraqi government.
Bush only continued what previous Presidents started. Just like Obama continued with the invasion of Libya and murder of Ghadaffi.
The agenda of the ME is not held by one single President.
I suggest you go read up on Gen. Wesley Clark and what he told us.
I read plenty from Gen. Clark. Wesley Clarke was against invading Iraq in 2003. This is from the Times' review of one of his books:
Quote:
His deft review of the battlefield tactics that won Baghdad in less than a month is merely the preface to a bitter, global indictment of George W. Bush. The president and his administration are condemned for recklessly squandering a brilliant military performance on the wrong war at the worst possible time, diverting resources and talent from the pursuit of Al Qaeda, neglecting urgent domestic needs and dissipating the post-9/11 sympathy and support of most of the world. Wesley K. Clark's Warpath - NYTimes.com
Sorry, if you think that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was merely a continuation of Clinton policy, which never included invading Iraq, you are making up your own facts.
Obama didn't murder Ghadaffi. Ghadaffi was murdered by his own people.
The timeline isn't clear to this war strategist (not) ,but here are a couple of observed scenarios that raise far more questions
than we lay folks have ever heard.
1 . Just prior to our basic attack on Bagdad Hussain sold an unpresidented 550 TONS of lower grade yellowcake uranium to
a Canadian energy co.
2. While Bagdad and the Hussain regime began to crumble a false airlift of commericial airlines ( under the guise of providing
humanitarian aid in Syria) was actually a 24/7 cartel of munitions, poison gas canisters, and higher grade urainum plus
tons of dirty bomb's , surface to air missles, rapid fire cannons (Russian) mines . Hussain spent hundres of millions to East
Germans for nuclear materials .
3. The real danger today is Syria loaded with WMD's . It's only logical that the 550 tons of yellowcake purchased in Niger Africa
was a drop in the bucket either buried, caved or shipped out of country .Trust me George knows more than we think.
No mention of Turkey's involvement ?
It was Turkey that sold Sarin gas to al-Nusra.
Turkey..our ally.
Al-Nusra..our "rebels" at first and then "terrorists" a week later only we supplied them with arms and training and money first.
Bush had to start the invasion before the Summer came when the temperatures skyrocketed. A delay would have put the invasion off for months, and he was worried that he wouldn't be able to sustain the interest levels he had generated with his constant harangue about WMDs and threats from a Tin Horn Dictator.
Blix was in the way of Bush's desire to be a "War President". He had to go.
What you are saying is that Bush "had to" invade a country that didn't need invading at all, before the hot summer was upon us. So, he lied to the American people to achieve that goal. Yet, we ended up being in that country for may hot summers. I agree.
I see that in 2016 - nearly a decade after even the Bush Administration itself conceded that the alleged 'vast stockpiles of WMD' simply did not exist - the dead-enders are still peddling the inane notion that they did.
Some people are bound and determined to learn nothing from history. They usually start by ignoring how history played out, inventing things that never happened just so they don't have to learn from what actually did happen.
No, you are wrong. The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 stated that it is the policy of the United States to support democratic movements within Iraq.
The use of the US Military at the President's discretion is authorized in Sec 4(a)(2).
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