Any comparison of Iraq to Nazi Germany is, to put it bluntly, weak.
We know -- it's a matter of fact -- that Saddam was not building WMD. It's a fact. He wouldn't be doing it right now or any time in the foreseeable future either. Would he like to? Of course. But he wouldn't be able to. During 12 years of sanctions, they got nothing done towards building WMD. The sanctions weren't going to stop any time soon.
George can spout his theories about the world one day just "looking away" from Iraq, but that simply was not going to happen.
George's scenario, if it were to happen exactly as he said it, would take years and years to pan out. Before he was an imminent threat, now they are saying he was a threat only if a rather complicated and lengthy dropping of sanctions and building an entire weapons program from scratch and then giving those weapons to his own enemy (al-qaeda) happened, then he would have been a threat.
He's trying to say he was right all along. It's just not true.
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