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Originally posted by Andrew E. Wiggin
reply to post by Mercenary2007
Why?
He is the commander - in - chief and made the decision to invade a sovereign nation. Regardless of rather or not Saddam was a bad guy - im concerned with the lying.
If Saddams actions were meritable enough to permit an invasion and occupation
then why not invade on that premise?
What were they hiding that they had to lie about....again and again and again, on multiple different levels and on many seperate occasions.
Originally posted by Mercenary2007
reply to post by Andrew E. Wiggin
why does any person Lie?
the Lying concerns me also. i honestly don't know why he lied. He had enough Justification with the 17 UNSC resolutions and the numberous violations of the cease fire agreement.
He did have WMD's (the US government gave them to iraq in the 80's!)he used them against Iran in the Iran-Iraq war. he used them on the Kurds. we even found stores of them durring the 91 gulf war.
in the 80's the isrealies launched an attack on a Nuclear reactor in Iraq because they were taking the fuel for it and trying to convert it to weapons grade for bombs.
Everyone knew he had WMD's and was hidding them just no one really knew how much he was hidding. remember every intelligence agency got it wrong not just the US ones!
So i guess After congress gave him authorization to take military action and then the new reports started coming in that most of iraqs WMD's had been destroyed in the 91 gulf war and they had not restarted the programs after he had committed troops and we had toppled the iraqi government it was to late to put the brakes on and pull the troops out. so we got stuck in iraq. plus he wanted some revenge Because it was rummored that Saddam tried to have his dad killed after the 91 gulf war to try and save face after Bush SR humiliated him so badly!
But Bush is a politicion. And like any politicion you can never get the truth out of them. they will always tell you what they think you want to hear. so a lie becomes a lie and a lie and so on.
Everyone knew he had WMD's and was hidding them just no one really knew how much he was hidding. remember every intelligence agency got it wrong not just the US ones!
So i guess After congress gave him authorization to take military action and then the new reports started coming in that most of iraqs WMD's had been destroyed in the 91 gulf war and they had not restarted the programs