[left that other site]

In the case of Iraq, there were many “dots” the connection of which pointed to just such a much greater disaster. Saddam Hussein had a long record of attacking his neighbors and slaughtering his own people, and he had used chemical weapons during the war with Iran and on Iraqi Kurds. He had serially violated 16 U.N. resolutions and the terms of the first Gulf War cease-fire agreement. For most of the 1990s he had evaded his responsibility under those resolutions and agreements to disclose his WMD facilities and stockpiles, until in 1998 he simply kicked the weapons inspectors out of the country. The sanctions regime, which was supposed to change his behavior, had become a farce. Hussein claimed the sanctions had killed a million children, creating a public relations nightmare for the U.S., all the while the corrupt U.N. food-for-oil program was putting billions into Hussein’s pockets. Meanwhile France and Russia were pushing for an end to sanctions so they could get back to doing profitable business with Hussein and oil-rich Iraq. Finally, Hussein had a record of giving support to terrorists, including vicious Palestinian murderer Abu Nidal and bin Laden’s future lieutenant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and making payments to families of Palestinian Arab murderers of Israeli women and children.

I remember all of these facts. It is amazing how soon the general public has forgotten.

[jjotto]

I just don’t believe how many FReepers fail to acknowledge that there were many Iraqi WMDs, and that Karl Rove championed the policy that kept them out of the news.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/10/17/rove_s_incredible_wmd_miscalculation

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/10/16/conventional-wisdom-vs-daily-beast-insiders-blame-rove-covering-iraqs

[BerryDingle]

I remember all of these facts. It is amazing how soon the general public has forgotten.

You missed another important point from around 2 years ago. The pentagon finally admitted, there are U.S military personnel still under medical care for exposure to nerve agents and highly toxic chemicals from cleaning out WMD's in Iraq. Somebody needs to tell idiots Ingraham and Kelly that.