Why Did We Invade Iraq? (A reminder: It wasn't just about WMD's)

National Review ^ | 03/26/2013 | Victor Davis Hanson

[ImpBill]

First post I have made in a long time. I more than agree with you. Bring all our troops home and issue a Fatwah of our own.

WE HAVE WMD'S! SCREW WITH US OR ANY OF OUR INTERESTS AND WE WILL USE THEM!

A few well places tactical nukes would have ended the mid east wars before they began.

[lonestar67]

great article by VDH

more sad recriminations from FR

These are the things that made America the paper tiger that OBL mocked.

We will get back their in short order and there will be another attack.

Then the pendulum will swing back.

[DeprogramLiberalism]

For all of you doubters I settle the question of justification for invading Iraq here: #22 The Quiet Funeral of “Bush Lied – Thousands Died!”

[neverdem]

BTTT! for the history. The question is where do we go from here?

[dragnet2]

Some of you Bush blaming asshats have apparently forgotten about the "Iraq Liberation Act" "The Act found that between 1980 and 1998 Iraq had ignored Resolutions of the United Nations Security Council."

You get out much?

They spent trillions of dollars of the American treasure, thousands of American lives on this BS and you're worried about offending the United Nations?

This might be somewhat of a shock to you Mr. mule, but the UN is not your friend.

In fact, Bush was one of the worst presidents in the past 100 years, who nearly singled handily made American citizenship pointless and made the GOP as popular as public pay phones.

In fact, your hero allowed in more Muslims AFTER 911 than the previous two decades.

Gezzz..

[ex-snook]

Well done.

[Pagey]

Bttt

[petercooper]

bttt

[x]

NO mention of Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait? WTF?

Wrong war? 2003, not 1991.

I suspect, though, one reason why we went in the second time was to finish the job we didn't do the first time.

Also, there was a lot of anger in the country after 911 and a lot of euphoria in Washington about being the only superpower.

It was almost like the government thought we had ... well ... superpowers ...

[Hot Tabasco]

To make daddy bush 41 proud of bush 43

You're starting to sound like an obnoxious broken record bro..........

[Hot Tabasco]

You're starting

I take that back, you've been sounding like one for a long time.......Bush is gone bro, give it up.

[Hot Tabasco]

And to claim nation building as a valid justification is absolutely contrary to sound conservative thought. Fail VDH

Your blind denial of the politics in the middle east region and lack of media disclosure of the true intent of our involvement in Iraq is a classic example of the "Low information voter" syndrome.

We now have an alliance with Iraq that includes unrestricted air-space for our planes as well as already constructed landing strips for our fighters and currently abandoned military barracks ready to house our land forces when the inevitable war breaks out between the Islamofascists in that region and Israel.

Denial isn't a river bro, there is a war coming in the middle east and our access to Iraq will be the deciding factor in its outcome.......

[Last of the Mohicans]

The Iraq War killed 190,000 Iraqis, 70 percent of whom were civilians, not to mention the 4,500 U.S. service members who lost their lives and the tens of thousands who returned wounded in body, mind, and spirit. The Iraq War has cost between $3-4 trillion, and will cost the U.S. taxpayer trillions more in continued veteran benefits. I think a few bases in Iraq are hardly worth that cost given the availability of others in nearby countries. And we had unrestricted airspace over Iraq before the Iraq War.