What is it with all those Bush administration officials? As if it’s a game! Every time their terms end they show up and speak out loud about how they were mistaken regarding certain things. Wait, those things are not just things; they are decisions that created mayhem and horror.After Bush’s first lying mate Collin Powell admitted on Meet the Press that Iraq did not have WMD, the ruthless former VP Dick Cheney confessed today that even Saddam had no link with al-Qaeda and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Hold on a sec here: let’s see, the two the main excuses for launching the Iraq war were the WMD and the link to 9/11! So basically the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the more than 4,000 Americans who were killed in the war were because of two lies?
And yet, there are still some people who believed that Bush was fighting terror and his henchmen fit the job. I mean Cheney is basically saying, “Screw the Americans. I needed to profit from this war financially and I did”! What else does this thug have to say so that you believe he is a criminal?
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They held Saddam accountable for his crimes, yet Bush and Cheney get off free. Where's the justice in that. Do the millions of Iraqi lives just not matter!
There is nothing that Cheney has to say that I want to hear. He is a lying bastard who is principly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. I wish there was a way to bring him to justice for what he has done.
I would be very interested if anyone could show me when and where the Bush administration actually tried to connect Saddam to the 9/11 attacks.
As I understand it, the Iraq war was pre-emptive, not retaliatory. We were not punishing Saddam for his involvement in 9/11, we were trying to prevent Saddam from providing WMD for a future attack.
The Bush administration believed that two things were true.
1) Saddam was developing WMD
2) Saddam had a working relationship with terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda
It was the "conjunction of terrorism and WMD" that the Bush administration feared.
I don't believe that Cheney's story has changed. He is still saying that while Saddam was not involved in 9/11, he was buddies with terrorists.
It was the "conjunction of terrorism and WMD" that the Bush administration feared.
And, indeed, if Saddam had not been removed from power:
A) The sanctions would have been lifted by 2005.
B) By now, Iraq would definitely have reopened their chemical weapons facilities by now and would have an active nuclear arms program *again*.
C) Iraq would have continued to be a location of safe harbor for AQ and Taliban fighters where they could hide out and re-enter Afghanistan and Pakistan. Making it much harder to beat them down. It was difficult enough getting countries like Jordan to decide AQ were not heroes. If the Iraq invasion had not happened it is unlikely they would not seem them that way today.
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Things that are likely but not certain are that:
D)Saddam & Co would be using the common belief that he had chemical and nuclear weapons (a belief he himself had encouraged) to bully and threaten his neighbors. He might even have invaded a neighbor and warned off reprisals because of his chemical and nuclear weapons. People who complained that the US shouldn't invade because there was not enough evidence of WMDs would be counselling AGAINST invading later because the evidence was sure.
E)Bassam would probably have very limited opportunities outside of Ba'athist Iraq.
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This post reveals remarkably little curiosity on Bassam's part about the events directly affecting his own country. And more curiosity regarding uninformed Lefty hate blogs.
(Also, I fail to see how Cheney profited from the war.)
"Bassam would probably have very limited opportunities outside of Ba'athist Iraq"
I had opportunity in neither old Iraq nor the new one. They are both horrible and messed up.
I had opportunity in neither old Iraq nor the new one. They are both horrible and messed up.
Well, frankly, that's the misfortune of having been born in an Arab-Islamic country. (Actually, the same is true for those born in Persian-Islamic countries, and Afghan-Islamic, Pashtun-Islamic, Paki-Islamic, and Baloch-Islamic.) You can hardly have expected GWB and Cheney to have waved a magic wand and changed the tendency of the culture of your country from corruption and random cruelty. Although, he *did* change things enough that bloggers and newspapers operate with general impunity from the government.
Still, Iraqis are no longer citizens of a rogue state who used to risk their lives to attempt to immigrate.
Cheney says "Your welcome."
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