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 [Hope2012] War of Terror Update: Iraq: EXCERPT: “The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. A devastating attack on Mr Blair’s justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain’s key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act…He also reveals that British officials warned US diplomats that bringing down the Iraqi dictator would lead to the chaos the world has since witnessed.

[Libertarian Leanings] Reason number three: In War and Decision Feith pointed out that Saddam Hussein saw himself as the ultimate winner of the 1991 Gulf War because at the end of it he was still in power. Unchastened by defeat he expected at worst he would delay his strategic goals not abandon them. 

[South Dakota Politics] War and Decision: A Book Review: First, Congress and the Clinton administration had already passed the Iraqi Liberation Act into law in 1998, making regime change in Iraq part of national policy (btw, in this section Feith incorrectly identifies Tom Daschle as being from North Dakota. People often confuse the two states and I like to clear things up by telling people that South Dakota is the Dakota just south of North Dakota). 

[The Stupid Nation] The Enemy Within - The Democratic Party: A megalomaniac in the best possible light, one who had stock piles of chemical weapons at least (for those with short memories, he used them on his own people, so we know beyond doubt that he had them), was widely known to covet nuclear weapons (the Israelis blew up the Iraqi nuclear program), as well as biological agents, and invaded his neighbors to the east and south. At the time when President Bush acted to remove Saddam Hussein, the United Nations sanctions and embargoes were crumbling under the weight of billions in bribes Hussein was using to undermine them. 

[The New American] Did We Get Lied Into War?: The committee’s conclusions initially related that statements by the administration “regarding Iraq’s possession of chemical weapons were substantiated by intelligence information.” But then it added: “Statements ”¦ regarding Iraq’s chemical weapons production capability and activities did not reflect the intelligence community’s uncertainties as to whether such production was ongoing.”

 [Political Forum] Bush--The Murder Charge: If Bush either lied when he said Hussein’s alleged WMDs made him an imminent threat to the security of this country or lied when he led Americans to believe that Hussein was involved with 9/11 then his act of ordering the invasion would not be the conduct of a person acting in self defense.

 [Pat Dollard | Young Americans] The War And The House Divided - Party Of Defeat: The failure to find the WMDs anticipated by the intelligence was framed to mean Bush had lied about the intelligence, and thus that the efforts and casualties of brave young men and women were based on a lie. Iraqi casualties were grossly overstated, an implicit war-crimes indictment bolstered by the respective claims of John Kerry, Dick Durbin, and John Murtha that American troops had “terrorized” Iraqis, comported themselves in the manner reminiscent of the Soviet Gulag or Pol Pot, and “killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”

 [Alpha Thesis Blog] The reason behind the Iraq war: Citing intelligence reports, there was a very strong case that Saddam Hussein was developing chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. After the invasion, it was clear he wasn’t.

[Reidblog [The Reid Report blog]] Joe Lieberman's war: They provide the Republicans with details about the events surrounding the INC-CIA’s 1995 failed plot against Saddam Hussein (see March 1995) and Iraq’s subsequent incursion into Kurdish territory (see August 1996) which the Republican .

 [Walash's Weblog] Iraq: A War For Israel: In the view of “leading Israeli commentators,” the London Times reported, the address was “so pro-Israel that it might have been written by [Israel prime minister] Ariel Sharon.” [5]  In an address to pro-Israel activists at the 2004 convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Bush said: “The United States is strongly committed, and I am strongly committed, to the security of Israel as a vibrant Jewish state.” He also told the gathering: “By defending the freedom and prosperity and security of Israel, you’re also serving the cause of America.” [6]

 [Chrisy58's Weblog] How Does President Bush Lie?: Another example is the now infamous nuclear reference from Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address: “Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” Not only was this refuted twice in early 2002 ”” by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and by French intelligence ”” but the CIA’s National Intelligence Council investigated and told the White House four days before the address that “the Niger [Africa] story is baseless and should be laid to rest.” So the administration knew the claim was false, used it anyway and when caught, issued a collective “oops.” Although these speeches are vetted by Bush staffers, State, Defense, National Security and the CIA, it just slipped through.

 [Weekly Standard Blog] Obama Foreign Policy Too...Conservative?: One of the key talking points to emerge from the Obama campaign in the recent skirmishing on national security concerns John McCain's support for the Iraq War. "The case for war in Iraq was so thin that George Bush and John McCain had to hype the threat of Saddam Hussein, and make false promises that we’d be greeted as liberators," Obama said yesterday.

 [brothersjudd Blog] YIKES, IS SHE CONFUSED:: But Bush's big mistake was not having a joint appearance with the Congressional leadership after the House and Senate votes, and getting Democrats up there next to him to say they supported the measure in full (i.e., that it was a continuation and a fulfillment of Congressional policy on Iraq since the 1998 regime change vote). That would have negated much of what followed, because then the Democratic party itself would have had to push back against the moonbat left.

 [Attack Machine] Why Iraq Was Inevitable: What these and other such statements remind us is that, by the time George Bush entered the White House in January 2001, the United States was already at war with Iraq, and in fact had been at war for a decade, ever since the first Gulf war in the early 1990’s. (This was literally the case, the end of hostilities in 1991 being merely a cease-fire and not a formal surrender followed by a peace treaty.) Not only that, but the diplomatic and military framework Bush inherited for neutralizing the Middle East’s most fearsome dictator had been approved by the United Nations.

[NONE SO BLIND - BLOG] What Makes Something Good: Chapter 2 of Not So Straight-and-Narrow: Even if the Biblical portrayal of God were as morally untroubling as one could imagine, even if His own conduct were beyond reproach and His every commandment consistent with our own deepest moral sense, a logical problem would remain in the way of “God said it” being an adequate bedrock for a moral philosophy.

 [American Gerontocracy] Lightning Round II: “To judge by his unequivocal pronouncements pre-2003, and as improbable as it sounds now, that someone might well have been Al Gore, the erstwhile hawkish Vice President who had championed the Iraq Liberation Act, or indeed John Kerry, who back in 1998 told Scott Ritter that containment of Saddam was not working and that the time had come to use force. If Bush had failed to act, either one of these two men might have come to office in January 2005 publicly prepared to deal with the “gathering threat” that his predecessor had unaccountably allowed to grow larger and closer and ever more virulent.”

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