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Hussein gassed his own people....suggesting a test of WMD's.
That was well over a decade before the invasion. At the time, our response was to send Rumsfeld over to shake his hand and request he please consider stopping the practice.
Hussein gave the run around to UN inspectors...suggesting he had something to hide
Not just US...but world INTEL suggested WMD's were likely
What if we did nothing and all of this were true?
The UN inspectors were there shortly before we invaded and left b/c of our attack. Did they get a runaround? Sure. Did they also get cooperation? of course.
And if we did nothing, there's a chance he would have once again used weapons on his own people (though he hadn't done so in a decade). We knew he had no mobile weapons labs despite Powell's claims to the contrary. We knew he had no drones to launch attacks, despite Powell's claims to the contrary. And we knew that the aluminum tubes claimed to be for enriching uranium were for no such purpose.
Husseon signed a treaty with provisions. One of them was easy access for the UN inspectors.
He broke the treaty. He acted suspiciously...and after the first attack on the homeland since Pearl Harbor, our Goivernment, boithe republicans and democrats alike, were not willing to take the chance.
He had nothing to do with the first attack on our homeland since Pearl Harbor, and the administration was well aware of that fact.
I wonder what this thread would be about if, in fact, we did NOT do what we did, saved thousands of American lives, saved over a trillion dollars, kept our focus on the terrorists and continued to allow inspectors and the no-fly zones to do their job.I wonder what this thread would be about if, in fact, we did NOT do what we did, and instead, he gassed israel.
We would be debating with the left saying that Bush dropped the ball becuase he was a whimp and the right saying he did not feel war was necessary and di not see the threat as serious.
Sort of just saying.....
That's an interesting point