Omg...could Bush Have Been Right All Along?

[Raider179]

Originally posted by Muckmaw1
And Great Britain Lied to you
So did the CIA
So did the French
So Did the Germans
So Did Bill Clinton
and John Kerry....

They were ALL convinced Saddam had WMDs.

So either the whole world lied and is covering for GW, or they were all misinformed.

Misinformed is what I would say. The INC was responsible for delivering into the CIA's hands several defectors who reported about the WMD's in Iraq. Chalabi has been named as giving false info to the CIA and now he is in Iraq trying to secure a political position.

I find it hard to believe we took the word of these guys without some other "hard" info. There is also the anonymous source named "curveball" who was never identified. Chances are pretty good that most of the "info" at home and abroad was delievered by these "defectors".

Saying dont blame us everyone got it wrong is just a way of not taking responsibility. Since when did we trust foriegn intelligence assets to do our work? Isn't "foriegn integlligence" a kind of oxymoron. No matter what they know you are only gonna get what they want you to hear. Not the whole story you will hear whatever is best for that particular country.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
Operation Desert Storm / Shield was enacted to REMOVE SADDAM HUSSEIN FROM KUWAIT.   I hate rain too.

Karaya

RPM Masherbrum is right.  The MISSION was to remove Sadam and his forces from kuwait AND to defend Saudi Arabia.  The was set by the United Nations.....not the United States.  I don't recall if you've ever stated we needed UN approval for this invasion....but if you did you can't have it both ways.  If we'd taken out Sadam back then and occupied Iraq there would have been the same screams then as there are now that we are Evil oppressors.

[rpm]

I never stated that we needed UN approval for attacking a nation that attacks us. Problem is, Iraq never attacked us. I was all for going after OBL. Don't you think he should have been our primary, rather than secondary target? Powell was right, we broke it, it's up to us to fix it. I just don't see a pro-american government in Iraq coming out of this. What happens when they democraticly elect a regime that hates us as much as Saddam did?

[midnight Target]

Always better to be lucky than good.