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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
first of all there were no WMDs in Iraq (check the MacKay report)...now supporters of the invasion will say "they were moved to syria/Iran/pakistan"
but there is absolutely no proof of that...there's as much proof that saddam moved them to Mars...a few hundred old mustard gas shells whose existence was already know by the weapons inspectors? That's it?
There were plenty of voices who stated clearly before the war that the WMD threat was overblown. The powers that be simply chose to ignore those findings. Why do you think the coalition was a shadow of that from the first Gulf War?
There were those who criticized the rebuilding plan...but were summarily "retired"...Shinseki anyone?
The Iraq "threat" was a manufactured one. Yes, Saddam was a bad man, a dictator, but he certainly was not the imminent threat he was made out to be...how many innocent Iraqis have paid the price for that? Iraqis who were just as much victims as those who died during 9/11 I might add...10 000? 20 000? 30 000?
I'd say that the proverbial "pound of flesh" has been exacted...and then some...
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You replying to me?
I didn't say they were moved to Syria. Could have been, but I don't know. Enough was going on in Iraq to justify several UN resolutions and a bewildered Iraqi force to carry gas masks.
Sometimes good intel turns out to be bad intel and that was the case in my mind.
Tenet and the CIA wasn't giving Bush all the information, and countries like Britain and Russia were backing it up. Tough call. They weren't there so it's easy to say they shouldn't have gone in. But I didn't have that luxury when I supported the war, and unlike 1 in 3 Americans I consider it pretty weak to just change my mind now that it isn't going as well.