NO MORE BUSHS’
Except for the 500 TONS of yellowcake. Yeah, there’s that.
Some were ordered to be silent about their exposure. Others ignored, criticized. Pentagon actually apologized for their behavior.
Agent Orange redux...Gulf War Syndrome redux.
“These are not the WMD you are looking for.”
By the time the UN arguments and all the rest of the hooha had gone down, anyone who did not know the US was going to invade Saddam’s Iraq was living in the deep woods, was in a coma, or had recently died.
During the month or so that the process took, multiple long convoys of trucks (semis) under Russian escort where tracked, monitored, and watched by Spec Ops as they left Iraq and disappeared into the Bekka Valley; no attempt was made to stop them or learn of the trucks’ contents.
It is more than likely that the real chemical weapons (that all the world’s intelligence agencies were reporting as existing in Iraq) were transferred rapidly out in order to stop the impending US invasion. It is also likely that the chemical weapons turned over by Assad a while back were those same weapons.
Now of course, Hillary’s stalking horse has made hindsight going back over a dozen years a campaign issue, further dividing the voters and demonstrating that there are no adults among the men vying for the job, just hacks. Naturally, supporters of one hack or the other will not only jump on me, but further demonstrate that they - like whichever hack they support - are the putty Democrats’ use to complete their playbook plans.
Then, we opted to play nice instead of crushing the enemy we had selected - real cluster-"fudge" in the end.
Everyone knew Iraq had chemical weapons going back to the mid-1980s. They were used in the Iran-Iraq war and then again the Kurds in 1988.
Did we invade Iraq because of 15 - 20 year-old chemical weapons stockpiles? I don’t believe any evidence was found of an ongoing chemical weapons program.
And others have posted that the yellow cake was leftover from the early ‘80s nuclear program ended by the Israeli’s bombing of Iraq’s only nuclear plant.
I think the claim for going to war with Iraq had to do with ongoing WMD programs, not leftovers from the 1980s.
Why is no one mentioning all the weapons that went into Syria that were supposed to qualify as WMD’s?
Years ago that was a dominant view here on FR...........
bkmk. bttt
I’m used to liberals rehashing the Iraq war and Bush’s so called “lies”. It’s sad to see it on Free Republic. And all because of something Trump said in a debate?
No, I’m not a Jeb! fan. This is just sad.
So what?
These bastards will never admit President Bush was correct. They undermined the US and will keep to their story no matter how much evidence to the contrary comes to light.
Based on the conflicting information, I believe there were some type of NBC programs going on. Before people forget, ask yourself this; Would you be willing to take a chance, any chance that any of those found warheads/shells wouldn’t work if deployed?
However, I think the NBC allegations as a justification for war were a cover for another, probably more important reason to stop the insanity...the oil for food scandal that the UN was up to its neck in.
Kinda hard to coalesce any coalition against the UN, a lot easier to do so against chemical weapons.
JMHO...
This was passed by a Democrat Senate. It says over and over that Iraq was in violation of the 1991 cease fire agreement. If you want to question a President's actions, then look no further than President Clinton who did nothing while Iraq skirted the cease fire agreement. If Clinton had been more vigilant, then we wouldn't have had to invade.
They were the other kind of chemical weapons.... not the ones we went after... the other kind... okay...
So, they finally admit that there WERE WMDs in Iraq. Then they say they were the wrong ones. Typical leftist BS.
This issue has been discussed, in depth, on FR and the overwhelming consensus, among Freepers has been that, given the widely accepted intelligence available at the time, GWBs invasion was justified.
It was only the moonbats that argued the "Bush Lied, People Died" line.
Now I see we are revisiting the whole argument.
Why?
Because Trump supporters are working hard to, again, justify one of Trump's leftist positions/statements so they can continue to feel good in their support for him.
You could summarize the article by saying that we found Iraqi chemical weapons but those don’t count.