First it was WMDs – There were none
Then Saddam had tried to acquire “Yellow Cake” Uranium from Africa – That was proven to be a lie (In Cincinnati on Oct 7 Tenet CIA Director told Hadley in reference to Bush’s speech about it “You Need to take this F**ing sentence out because we don’t believe it,” And the reference was pulled, but later re-inserted when making the speech before congress.
Then it was to oust Saddam Hussein because he supported Al-Qaeda and 9/11 and was threat to the U.S. however, A 90-page, top-secret report, drafted by the National Intelligence Council at Langley, for President Bush known as the "key judgments." summed up the findings of the U.S. intelligence community regarding the threat posed by Iraq; findings the president says formed the foundation for his decision to preemptively invade Iraq without provocation. The report "was good, sound intelligence," Bush has remarked. Pg. 4 of the report, the National Intelligence Estimate,deals with terrorism
2007-04-22
08:00:39
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and draws conclusions that would come as a shock to most Americans. The CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and the other U.S. spy agencies unanimously agreed that Baghdad:
1) had not sponsored past terrorist attacks against America,
2) was not operating in concert with al-Qaida,
3) and was not a terrorist threat to America.
"We have no specific intelligence information that Saddam's regime has directed attacks against U.S. territory," the report stated
Next- Humanitarian Issues, -Now that more have died it changed again. (Also with Darfur no one is buying it anyway)
Then it was to bring Democracy to Iraq, but Iraqi’s don’t want Democracy (Their Constitution states “Sharia Law is the Only True law”) (Iran has elections too you know.)
So how do you justify going into Iraq now?
2007-04-22
08:01:06 ·
update #1
garafalo-yes it would be. he was a neccessary evil who neutralized Iran and kept them and bay and from becoming a regional influence. Now that Saddam is gone we ahve an even bigger problem to worry about. Take a look at the real hsitory of the region, not the crap that politicians feed you.
2007-04-26
03:50:49 ·
update #2