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Originally Posted by Bingo
If it was in fact treason or a complete lie then you'd be on to something but I've seen reports that indicate it's not quite as open and shut as that.
Hussein's behaviour suggested he had something to hide, and the UN's inability to put teeth behind any of the resolutions they passed put the US and Great Britain in a serious bind.
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If that's what you believe. I've heard reports that if I commit mass suicide with my buddies, I can get to halley's comet. Of course, reason tells me that to be false. If this was about weapons of mass destruction, why did the US vehemently oppose a plan that would've turned Iraq essentially into one big arms investigation, including round-the-clock air surveilance over the vast majority of the country? Why didn't they give arms inspection more time? Why didn't they acknowledge the findings of arms inspections, both UN and American, which turned up nothing? Why were military efforts ramped up in light of a UN investigation which revealed that Iraqi disarmament was
further along than even they expected? Why did so many countries around the world have this tremendous forsight about Iraq's weapon program, that 3 and a half years into the war, nothing has been discovered?
You can believe the earth is a rectangle for all I care, you'll just be looked at as foolish by anyone with decent cognitive reasoning capabilities.
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Bush had no foreign policy when he came to office and was criticized for such. 911 put him in a situation where he couldn't have that happen again. From his chair he couldn't afford to be wrong and his chief intelligence guy was telling him the WMD were there.
He tried the UN over and over again.
He tried to get Hussein to step down and avoid a war.
Then he went in.
I think there's a lot more grey area than you're willing to admit.
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He tried the UN. They said no because there was no evidence.
He told saddam to get out, and he said no because why the hell should he leave his own country because the US is threatening him.
Do you really believe this?