There is so much revisionist history here its hard to believe.

Prior to this he wanted the world to believe he still had them but faced with UN threats he did exactly as he was asked.

Why do so many of oyu have such short memories?

Obviously the Cheney/Bush administration had a reason to lie: OIL.

But the UN weapons inspectors did not have a reason to lie when they said they had looked everywhere and could find nothing.

OBL did call Saddam a secular heretic. OBL was mad that he was not allowed to fight against Saddam in Gulf War I.

I have read that the Arab League said in March 2003 that they had made a deal with Saddam that he would leave for $1 billion and a guarantee of safety—but the US wanted to invade.

After the invasion said WMD are never found, clearly putting all of the pre-war claims to rest, and vindicating the war skeptics, but Bush’s policies are “not that misdirected”?

LOL

Can you spell kool-aid?

If you recall, the execution came days before the Democrats took over Congress. Last thing this administration wanted was Saddam spilling the beans to a Congressional committee on the past 30 years of dealings he had with the USA, and the Republican administrations.

Many of us understood that the reason for the invasion was simple – steal Iraq’s oil. This is the policy of Big Oil that was carried out.

Al Qaeda was a creation of radical Islamic fundamentalism. Hussein, for all his faults, was a secularist who had the most progressive society in the ME. Of course we knew he had no WMD….we had his country in a No-Fly-Zone vice for years. Our sigintel would have picked up any movement into neighboring countries. And why would he if the US was planning an invasion? Wouldn’t he have used those in a scortched Earth policy to take out as many coalition forcers as possible? Fact is, we invaded once the UN confirmed that the WMD no longer existed. I think Saddam’s bluff was that of a toothless, defanged dictator who said he had WMD as a way to keep his enemies (neighboring and domestic) in check.

So what did the war accomplish?

* We took out SA’s #1 secular threat.
* We got the price of oil boosted to $100/bbl (Exxon thanks the US military and this administration for “mission accomplished”!)
* We’ve pretty much taken the #2 oil reserves off the market, making SA oil that much more expensive.
* We donated hundreds of billions to Dick Cheney’s favorite charities – Dick Cheney and the MIC.

Anyways, killing 100’s of thousands of Iraqi innocents, 4000 American soldiers, spending $1,000,000,000,000.00+, destroying a country, destabilizing the entire region, and shitcanning our international reputation was worth the price to remove a defanged local dictator and increase our energy dependence on ME oil….right?

They didn’t have Hans Blix or Scott Ritter or the IAEA fooled, did they? And the CIA wasn’t convinced. Don’t you think you would take a harder look before invading? Not if it was a pretext, which it was.

Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 28, 2008 @ 2:11 pm”

In the belief he had the U.S. stamp of approval. You know, when the US gov’t tells you it is ok…

Nothing Hussein ever did remotely approached the war crimes of the Bush administration, which are more similar to the Nazi crimes than to a police action. Murdering him was not good, either. Murdering people is never good. There was not a pretense of justice in the trial and hanging of Hussein. If there were, he might still have been executed, but there was not.

No, Hussein did not fund Palestinian suicide bombers. He supported the families of those who lost their lives protecting their homes against invading and occupying armies, as a humanitarian act. Amoral madmen twist this into an accusation, as though his actual crimes, such as participation in the US proxy war on Iran, were not already capital.

Those who accuse the current administration of incompetence do not understand: They are very good at what they do. They set out to destroy the United States of America, and they are succeeding in doing so. They have subverted the democratic process through vote counting systems, centralized the mass media propaganda organs, abolished the civil liberties won by centuries of struggle against totalitarianism, removed the bulk of the wealth of the US to Europe and Asia, converted the ownership of the assets of the US to centralized and foreign ownership, and left generations of Amerians to be born into oppressive debt, to live out their lives in slavery. This could not be accomplished by accident.

No kidding.

And when moving them doesn’t do the trick anymore, then the next step is always to change the subject: “Look, over there! Something shiny!”

Perhaps these kool-aid drinkers think everyone has the same short attention span they do…. sshheesshh…

Comment by Gregor Samsa — January 28, 2008 @ 1:20 pm

That’s asking quite a lot of the right-wing noise machine, isn’t it, Gregor?

I mean, they have an entire department dedicated to simply keeping the wheels greased on those goalposts.

Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 28, 2008 @ 1:04 pm

So the threshhold for launching a “preemptive” strike on a country is met when its leader has a pipe dream about maybe someday having weapons of mass destruction someday?

The rationale for the war were not Hussein’s “capability and aim” to rebuild his WMD program, but his stockpiles of said WMD.

Let’s not move the goal posts after the fact.

How come some people never fall for the propaganda while others fall for it every time? In my opinion, anyone who blindly trusts their leaders like the pub-tards do have no clue why this country was founded.