Would the Bush Admin still have gone to Iraq even if 9/11 didn't happen?

[BigJon3475]

BUSH v. GORE

[djacques]

Originally Posted by BigJon3475

Okay, for the sake of curiously killing the cat. What president have you agreed with? The facts show that as far back as Kennedy, in a wierd agree/disagree sort of way, we've lambasted/agreed/destroyed Iraq and its WMD intentions.

I don't think we've had a remotely decent president since Calvin Coolidge--although I have to credit Eisenhower with not being a completely pliant doll of the Israeli lobby, as was evidenced in 1956.

The last president I can honestly say I really admire was Grover Cleveland: honest, anti-imperialist, pro-Constitution, not a power grabber.

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by ray1945

Bush was ready to invade Iraq immediately after his inauguration:

IMHO...I agree he was obsessed with Iraq and Hussein; otherwise why LIE about Iraq and their WMD programs.

[other99]

I dont believe the Bush administration would have invaded Iraq if 9/11 did not happen as Bush would have kept up what the previous administration has done and kept up sanctions on Saddam. Yet of course the neo cons within the republican party would have wanted to yet before 9/11 they were not so prominent in determining foreign policy. Only after 9/11 did the neo cons within US government played an much more influentual role in US foreign policy.