How can people say that Iraq never plotted against this country when they tried to assassinate Sr Pres. Bush?

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U.S. Strikes Iraq for Plot to Kill Bush

By David Von Drehle and R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 27, 1993; Page A01

U.S. Navy ships launched 23 Tomahawk missiles against the headquarters of the Iraqi Intelligence Service yesterday in what President Clinton said was a "firm and commensurate" response to Iraq's plan to assassinate former president George Bush in mid-April.The attack was meant to strike at the building where Iraqi officials had plotted against Bush, organized other unspecified terrorist actions and directed repressive internal security measures, senior U.S. officials said. Clinton, speaking in a televised address to the nation at 7:40 last night, said he ordered the attack to send three messages to the Iraqi leadership: "We will combat terrorism. We will deter aggression. We will protect our people." Clinton said he ordered the attack after receiving "compelling evidence" from U.S. intelligence officials that Bush had been t

Answer 1

good point

Answer 2

Saddam kept the country under control and he was sold all the WMD by the USA. When Saddamn intially wanted to invade Kuwait, he consulted with the USA but GHWB just told him that it was none of the US business. Only later did GHWB flip-flop on the issue. With the sanctions in place for so many years, the US is the major terrorist causing the death of thousands of innocent Iraqi children. Not to mention illegally occupying a country, torturing innocent civilians, and escalating an internal civil war. I am no lover of Saddam he was thug, crimininal and a dictator but personally, I long for the days Saddam was in power.

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I really havn't heard people say they didn't plotted against our country, but people did say they didn't have any viable WMD program or nuclear weapons program. And they were not major threat to this country.