Was This Republican Letter A Precursor To The Invasion Of Iraq?

[Agit8r]

Yes. It was also a precursor to Bush hiring half of those signatories, to positions in his administration.

 

[g5000]

The policy of containment of Saddam Hussein has been steadily eroding over the past several months. As recent events have demonstrated, we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War coalition to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when he blocks or evades UN inspections.

Speaking as someone who was personally there at the time, this part is completely true.


History has proven, though, everything said in the letter past this point was an illusion. Saddam no longer had a viable WMD program. It's just that his ego and his belief in his country's sovereignty prevented him from allowing inspectors into his country to prove he had nothing up his sleeve.

Saddam wanted the world to believe he had WMDs. He didn't think we would actually go so far as to invade Iraq and kill him over what he knew didn't exist.

He probably had faith our intelligence services would know he had nothing, with or without UN inspections. Kind of ironic.

 

[bendog]

The letter doesn't expose another PNAC catastrophic miscalculation. For all of Saddam's pre-Gulf War I faults, he really didn't have much interest in controlling every day freedoms ... unless his authority was questioned, and the baath had a history of supporting educ and some basic healthcare. The PNAC thought that without Saddam, a realitively enlightened, pro-Western middle class would welcome them. The embargos killed all that off. What was left was poorly educated tribes wanting a go at the others's throats.

We have a pattern of tolerating despots on the basis that they actually are less despotic than that which stands likely to replace them. And now the despots topple, and we have no clue what to do. And, our staunched ally has been the Saudis, and in many ways they are the worst of the lot.

 

[Care4all]

My argument is that if we had pursued Osama bin Laden with a vengeance like no other, for the attack on us on 9/11, and annihilated him within a few months to a year after the attack on us....it would have shown Muslim jihadists and AlQaeda, that "Allah" was on OUR SIDE, and what they did was not Allah's will....

In other words, it would have been a damper on recruiting for them... instead, they viewed Allah as giving them the "go ahead"...and every year that passed made that view, even stronger....

 

[Contumacious]

My argument is that if we had pursued Osama bin Laden with a vengeance like no other, for the attack on us on 9/11, and annihilated him within a few months to a year after the attack on us....it would have shown Muslim jihadists and AlQaeda, that "Allah" was on OUR SIDE, and what they did was not Allah's will....

In other words, it would have been a damper on recruiting for them... instead, they viewed Allah as giving them the "go ahead"...and every year that passed made that view, even stronger....

I see

so it was Allah's will that the zionists invade Palestine in 1925 and disappear them by any means

it was Allah's will that Truman dispossess 2 million Palestinians of Palestine

It was Allah's will that the US invade Iraq in 1990 and remain there for 18 years slaughtering millions

It was Allah's will that the US-Israhell-Saudi Arabia destroy Syria , making those unfortunate people international refugees

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Signed by the usual Neocons...some of whom still have influence on the Obama administration.

War is a bipartisan effort...in other words, both parties love war.

You just proved you either can't or choose not to read. Look at what happened after Obama took office. He has ended two hot Bush wars which increased the national debt over two trillion dollars. Not to mention 6,000 dead and 40,000 seriously wounded. Maybe that's why his spending looks better:

I don't understand the fascination with the left's objection to the war in afghanastan. Isn't that where Al-queda came from?

 

[Campbell]

Signed by the usual Neocons...some of whom still have influence on the Obama administration.

War is a bipartisan effort...in other words, both parties love war.

You just proved you either can't or choose not to read. Look at what happened after Obama took office. He has ended two hot Bush wars which increased the national debt over two trillion dollars. Not to mention 6,000 dead and 40,000 seriously wounded. Maybe that's why his spending looks better:

Not this again. You must be very hard headed...and incapable of learning.

Apparently you think doubling the national debt in 8 years, means reduced federal spending.

What about the two trillion dollars of interest which Obama has paid for interest on the debt he assumed?

 

[gipper]

Signed by the usual Neocons...some of whom still have influence on the Obama administration.

War is a bipartisan effort...in other words, both parties love war.

You just proved you either can't or choose not to read. Look at what happened after Obama took office. He has ended two hot Bush wars which increased the national debt over two trillion dollars. Not to mention 6,000 dead and 40,000 seriously wounded. Maybe that's why his spending looks better:

Not this again. You must be very hard headed...and incapable of learning.

Apparently you think doubling the national debt in 8 years, means reduced federal spending.

What about the two trillion dollars of interest which Obama has paid for interest on the debt he assumed?

Does doubling the national debt in 8 years mean anything to you?

Lets see now....from 1776 to 2008 $10 trillion national debt

2009 to 2017....$20 Trillion....ops its magic!!!

 

[Campbell]

Signed by the usual Neocons...some of whom still have influence on the Obama administration.

War is a bipartisan effort...in other words, both parties love war.

You just proved you either can't or choose not to read. Look at what happened after Obama took office. He has ended two hot Bush wars which increased the national debt over two trillion dollars. Not to mention 6,000 dead and 40,000 seriously wounded. Maybe that's why his spending looks better:

Not this again. You must be very hard headed...and incapable of learning.

Apparently you think doubling the national debt in 8 years, means reduced federal spending.

Apparently you think George W. Bush taking over a balanced budget and immediately cutting tax rates for his rich buds then starting two wars didn't result in the biggest increase in the national debt in a lifetime.....BUT YOU'RE WRONG!!

 

[Campbell]

The policy of containment of Saddam Hussein has been steadily eroding over the past several months. As recent events have demonstrated, we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War coalition to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when he blocks or evades UN inspections.

Speaking as someone who was personally there at the time, this part is completely true.


History has proven, though, everything said in the letter past this point was an illusion. Saddam no longer had a viable WMD program. It's just that his ego and his belief in his country's sovereignty prevented him from allowing inspectors into his country to prove he had nothing up his sleeve.

Saddam wanted the world to believe he had WMDs. He didn't think we would actually go so far as to invade Iraq and kill him over what he knew didn't exist.

He probably had faith our intelligence services would know he had nothing, with or without UN inspections. Kind of ironic.

Instead of that the Bush administration made up and told 935 lies to tell and gain support for an invasion. It's in the history books. Go ahead and mention the rest of the story. When Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate George Herbert Walker Bush in Qatar, circa 1993 he signed his death warrant. When you mess with a Texas family who has power they will hunt you down and kill you even if it costs a trillion dollars and 4000 young American lives.

 

[gipper]

Signed by the usual Neocons...some of whom still have influence on the Obama administration.

War is a bipartisan effort...in other words, both parties love war.

You just proved you either can't or choose not to read. Look at what happened after Obama took office. He has ended two hot Bush wars which increased the national debt over two trillion dollars. Not to mention 6,000 dead and 40,000 seriously wounded. Maybe that's why his spending looks better:

Not this again. You must be very hard headed...and incapable of learning.

Apparently you think doubling the national debt in 8 years, means reduced federal spending.

Apparently you think George W. Bush taking over a balanced budget and immediately cutting tax rates for his rich buds then starting two wars didn't result in the biggest increase in the national debt in a lifetime.....BUT YOU'RE WRONG!!

We were debating your beloved Dear Leader...not your most hated W. Maybe you might see that the difference between your most loved and your most hated is very little...but I am not betting on it.

I know it is difficult for you to accept...the truth always is for radical leftists. BO doubled the national debt in just 8 years....but in your small mind he shrunk the deficit.

The new math of the Left.

 

[Campbell]

Signed by the usual Neocons...some of whom still have influence on the Obama administration.

War is a bipartisan effort...in other words, both parties love war.

You just proved you either can't or choose not to read. Look at what happened after Obama took office. He has ended two hot Bush wars which increased the national debt over two trillion dollars. Not to mention 6,000 dead and 40,000 seriously wounded. Maybe that's why his spending looks better:

Not this again. You must be very hard headed...and incapable of learning.

Apparently you think doubling the national debt in 8 years, means reduced federal spending.

Apparently you think George W. Bush taking over a balanced budget and immediately cutting tax rates for his rich buds then starting two wars didn't result in the biggest increase in the national debt in a lifetime.....BUT YOU'RE WRONG!!

We were debating your beloved Dear Leader...not your most hated W. Maybe you might see that the difference between your most loved and your most hated is very little...but I am not betting on it.

I know it is difficult for you to accept...the truth always is for radical leftists. BO doubled the national debt in just 8 years....but in your small mind he shrunk the deficit.

The new math of the Left.

If George W. Bush had left tax rates alone the entire national debt would have been paid off in 2012. What he did was immediately slash tax rates for his rich buds not once but twice, 2001 and 2003. That's not the half of it. He started two wars, one totally unnecessary and borrowed the money from foreign banks to fund them. Republicans don't give a damn how high the debt goes as long as their rich buds don't have to pay taxes.

 

[Contumacious]

Repeating


I see

so it was Allah's will that the zionists invade Palestine in 1925 and disappear them by any means

it was Allah's will that Truman dispossess 2 million Palestinians of Palestine

It was Allah's will that the US invade Iraq in 1990 and remain there for 18 years slaughtering millions

It was Allah's will that the US-Israhell-Saudi Arabia destroy Syria , making those unfortunate people international refugees