Posted on 05/20/2022 12:12:45 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
He pulled the same crap with Harriet Miers. Don’t ask any questions about her, just TRUST US and confirm her! ####head Cheney even called into Rush and told conservatives to settle down! Just trust us Harriet Miers is great! There’s no evidence at all, just trust us!
I hate to break the news to you Sparky but Saddam did have WMDs. We found them. Bush lied, not about Saddam having WMDs but about not having found them.
The NY Slimes ran with the story in 2014, detailing the injuries to US servicemen who were injured when they chanced across the caches of mustard agent and sarin. The Slimes later published the US intelligence report on the events, released under FOIA. It's even been noted on Wikipedia that "the total number of munitions discovered since 2003 had climbed to 4,990...."
The Daily Beast later reported that Bush administration insiders claimed that it was Carl Rove's idea to cover up having found the weapons, presumably to prevent every Muslim terrorist on the planet from descending on Iraq in a scavenger hunt for whatever chemical weapons the US might have overlooked.
And not that it matters but only the Illiterati ever thought the war was over the belief that Saddam had WMDs anyway (which was lie that the demoncrats were peddling). The war was over his unwillingness to allow the international community to confirm he didn't have them.
Whether he had them or not -- which he did -- was irrelevant.
Don’t forget this POS lecturing us about islam being a “religion of peace”! right after 9/11 !!!
FU GWBush! F your whole ####head family!
what a joke
Yes it is. The Swamp is full of gators, ticks and leeches. If it comes down to the governor of Florida or Trump, it is not even close. DeSantis gets my vote. DJT lost me with the support of OZ. It is EVIL to maim children to make permanent customers for pharma.
Take it up with Colin Powell.
Everyone? In that case, I apologize. God knows the majority opinion is always the truth.
Where are the wmds Trump and all the other other Democrats said were there? Most likely Syria. Btw: Bush didn't start the war, Saddam Hussein did. How do you not know that?
He certainly did.
I know I'm touching a live wire here, but did DJT love America when he committed blood libel against the CIC when our soldiers were fighting for us overseas? He either lied in 2000 or he lied in 2007-present. Clearly he wasn't lying in 2000. Therefore he knowingly committed blood libel against GWB.
This is a false dichotomy.
True, maybe Trump knowingly committed blood libel against GWB, as you claim.
Or maybe the data he was operating off in 2000 was incomplete, compared to 2007.
Or maybe he believed the reports that were publicly available in 2007, and thought the older data had therefore been faulty or false.
Or perhaps the reality of facts on the ground in 2007 Iraq made him think that perhaps the Middle East had been better off with Saddam Hussein.
And so on.
There are a variety of potential explanations regarding why Trump changed his tone from 2000 to 2007 that don't fit your absolutist dichotomy.
But apparently, "standard conservative foreign policy" involves the decimation of the Christian population from one of Christianity's oldest havens by virtue of the radical Islamists who gained power because of our feckless and ill-defined foreign policy.
"The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace." - George W. Bush from a speech on September 17th, 2001
Saddam Hussein was a SOB who needed to be taken out. Should we have done it in 2003? That's open to debate. But it's done with and old news like you said.
Did Trump lie in his 2000 book?
What matters is the sense of objective. If the Bush Administration believed Saddam had been a clear and present danger to the United States of America, taking him out was one thing.
Staying behind for year after year as part of some nebulous mission to 'spread democracy' in the Middle East — in a region and culture with no tradition in Western values that made democracy such a valuable system — was a fool's errand.
You should. Colin Powell was George W. Bush's Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005 (and therefore the one responsible for implementing the Bush Administration's foreign policy), and was one of the most notable public faces promoting the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
His opinions about Obama have no bearing on his public proclamations as Secretary of State (and the contradictions he disclosed in private contrary to those public statements).
You nicely avoided the fact that FR does not exist as an opinion piece. FR has no opinion but people at FR have lots of opinions…. You included
You seem bent all out of shape that people aren’t agreeing with you
Have a good weekend
I don’t think you understand the term blood libel for starters
W went to war in Iraq. Didn’t like it then don’t like it now
Maybe you can go fight for the Ukrainians.
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