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Get used to it.With Obama as president the murders of innocent civilians will continue for the next 3 years.It's like a video game to him with a body count. The man loves his drone video games.
I am the one NOT making it a partisan thing. The idea that Saddam was a bad guy and needed stopped stretched clear across BOTH parties and many politicians.
I posted the link to the statements from the D's and we have the actions of the R's that clearly show that to be the case.
Frankly, no, Saddam Hussein needed no more to be stopped than half a dozen other dictators. He was still useful as an anti-Iran foil, and the intelligence community was well aware that without Hussein, Iraq would fall into the same sectarian violence that had just overtaken Yugoslavia after Tito. I saw three different "Iraq after Saddam" analyses in the early 90s which accurately predicted it.
Even if Saddam needed to be stopped, telling the President, the Congress, and the American people a Big Lie to make it happen was still a criminal act.
The other part of the Big Lie was that victory in Iraq would be cheap and easy. Rumsfeld claimed it would take only 70,000 troops. Army Chief of Staff Shinseki openly disputed that, insisting that the standing plans required 250,000 troops--implying a war effort Rumsfeld knew would never be accepted by Congress and the public. Shinseki continued to dispute his own boss publicly until Rumsfeld fired him, also quite publicly, in case other generals didn't get the message.
But, of course, the war proved the Army knew how to plan an invasion and Shinseki had been right all along.
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headlines
drones kills school children
drones damage mosque
drones kill farmers
drones kill wedding party
al queda could not care a fig about these groups, they use them as human shields
when u see these headlines
it means we killed another al queda leader.
bin laden lived for 5 years 3 blocks from a military academy in pakistan, u think they did not know?
they ranted about the attack. the moral outrage of it all.
It was a series of mistakes by the oval office, the congress and four administrations. Saddam Hussein also holds some of the responsibility for his own demise. I'm not going to get into a complete history lesson here for you. I won't bore others with your education on the region and its history, but the information is out there if you care to look with something other than a closed mind. Be my guest.
This think tank is called "project for a new American century." 12 members of this think tank were members of the GW Bush White House, including Cheney and Rumsfeld. This think tank is made up of oil and military corporations. This think tank has being wanting to invade Iraq for many, many years before Sept 11. Before Sept 11 they used the excuse Saddam was a dictator, but in reality they wanted to invade Iraq (for all the things these corporations got because of the Iraq war, I will list these things later in this post.)
After Sept 11 happened Cheney and Rumsfeld created a new office in the CIA/FBI. They then looked through all the intelligence gathered about Iraq, and they presented intelligence (that was already investigated and found to be untrue) to the American people.
The following documentary contains many high ranking US government/Military officials. Its where I first learned of the "project for the new American century."
Maybe so but we are not discussing our opinions but rather the opinions of politicians at the time.
Which was based on false "intelligence" cooked by politicians with a separate agenda.
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