How many think we were lied to by Bush and his administration about Iraq and WMD's?

Question

Guess this explains it?
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html

Answer 1

WOW! Wednesday, December 16, 1998. Liberals was President Bush in office then? No, how could he be? Then then must have been Clinton saying there were WMDs in Iraq! Then Clinton LIED about WMDs too, right? I mean besides that PERJURY thing, right?

Liberals did anyone actually LOOK at the top of the page which is dated: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 and says CLINTON TRANSCRIPT?

Answer 2

Why don't some of you quit your petty bickering and start researching the truth. The truth is the PNAC which is the Project For a New American Century is your problem. Some of you are so misguided on both sides of what is happening in your own country.

Quit playing at your keyboards and research the PNAC and find out who is behind it. It is quite easy to think you know everything when you don't know the truth.

It is the same as Winston Churchill warning England of th Hitler but no one listened until it was to late and millions had to die because nobody listened to Churchill. There are articles and blogs all over the internet warning people of the dangers of the PNAC. Check for yourself who the members are of the PNAC and you will find out.

Answer 3

I do. Clinton was acting on the most recent intel he had. Which was seven weeks old. Bush acted on intel that was seven years old. I know for a fact that the intel community had warned Bush about using that logic. That the White House knew a that the Niger-Uranium was false, a year before Bush made that claim in his State of the Union Address.

As for the WMDs that have been "found" there, they have been accounted for. The White House and U.N. both admitted that. If you are speaking about the "mobile weapons labs", that was dismissed by the british. And not only by the british military experts, but by the manufacturer as well. In fact, they verified that Iraq had made NO modifications to what were mobile weather labs.

Sorry Phillip, hate to break it to you, but you saw nothing that was illegal.

Answer 4

I don't think the Bush administration lied. I think they were lied to.

I'm not a Bush supporter, but I do believe the administration acted in good faith on what was believed to be sound evidence that Iraq harbored terrorists and WMD. Hindsight indicates otherwise, but I still believe its a mistake for Americans to pull their troops from Iraq.

Answer 5

I do. Come on. The greatest skill this administration has is covering up the truth and burying the evidence. Our only hope is that someone with a conscience in the executive branch will come forth and divulge the truth to our nation. I pray he or she is not shot for doing that.

George W. Bush did not even show an interest in foreign policy until he decided to run for the presidency.

Answer 6

We were not lied to by Bush unless the left will admit that Clinton also lied.


"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed.

If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program."

President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/17/transcripts/clinton.iraq/

Answer 7

Bush didn't know whether there wer WMDs or not. Therefore, he didn't lie because he didn't know.

Here's what really happened:
Bush accused them of having WMD, so we invaded. But there wasn't WMD, but we saw that Saddam was oppressing the Iraquis (Particularly Shias and Kurds), so we initiated Operation Iraqi Freedom, and it was sucessful. But some Iraquis supported Saddam. So the Saddam supporting idiots began attacking US forces in Iraq. They took many lives, and are taking lives right now. So we had to stay in Iraq and help the Iraqui security forces stop them. This made the dumb Insurgents angrier, and more and more lives are being taken away. Many of us feel sad. Please, stop criticizing President Bush abaout his because he really didn't know there wasn't WMD in Iraq.

Please, stop criticizing President Bush abaout this because he really didn't know there wasn't WMD in Iraq.

Answer 8

That is exactly why there should be an investigation into who juiced the intelligence to take us to war. Congress only approved this action on intelligence created by the executive branch and this has proved to be false. I think we as Americans, not just R's or D's should demand the truth. To many people have died and Iraq is in to big a mess not to investigate these things. My suggestion is to follow the money trail and see who is getting rich off of all these unnecessary deaths

Answer 9

I don't think so. I think Saddam knew what was coming down the pike or should I say up from Kuwait.

I believe those WMD went to the Bekaa Valley and into Syria before we arrived. He had plenty of time to fight a propaganda war.

It is shocking the naivety of our Citizen who sympathize with the enemy and overlook good reason and judgement.

Answer 10

If a war veteran says he saw them, I'll believe him. If a politician says he knows they were there, I won't believe him. I just have to say, when they started trumpeting that there weren't really WMD to be found, I kept thinking, "Wasn't there a movie called "Wagging the Dog...?"