Dem's are owned by the enviro lobbies, so that's their reasoning.
Makes sense, do you have any evidence?
Kuwait was the overriding factor in desert storm. No invasion of Kuwait...no desert storm. Period on that one.
Obviously.
Saddam did admit to it before his death...google it up...it's out there. Once his pride and power were stripped, he confessed.
Exactly what did he confess to?
Yes we had bad intel, everyone did.It's not like despots broadcast their intent on a wire. North Korea has an ICBM on the launch pad even now and they are loading it with what they call a satellite. In a covert nation shrouded in mystery, all intel is suspect. Like i said with Saddam, it was just his bad timing.
The intel was bad because of the people gathering it involved in government. The US has enough political power to dominate over any other disagreeing nation, so even though there were nations who did in fact disagree with the intelligence gathered pre-invasion, it didn't matter because the US government already had a political agenda. There were a lot of contradicted intelligence from other nations intelligence services and our own, they were all ignored and dismissed as unimportant because they didn't support what the government wanted them to support. This cannot be denied, people at the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, all throughout the government, from the top to the bottom have given report after report of shit exactly like this going on within the US government, all ignored because the people in charge of the decisions that could put these people behind bars are all on the same team, they are all against the American people and almost all of them are in it for themselves. If a politicians top priority was the American people, it would be clear, obviously they don't have the best interest of the people they're supposed to represent in mind because stupid political bickering back and fourth wouldn't be enough to stop programs that would benefit everyone, they'd all agree on the good ones and shit would progressively get better.
All intel IS suspect, except US intel, right?
As I said, we had every legal reason to invade iraq ever since Saddam started firing missiles at our planes during the Clinton years. Was 9/11 a catalyst? Sure it was. Saddam gloating over the twin towers going down sure didn't help him...he was an itch and he got scratched...literally.
Why were US planes in Iraqi airspace so they could be fired at in the first place? What if the situation were reversed, would you expect the United States military to NOT FIRE on Iraqi fighter planes over US soil?
As for Al Queda, it is pretty common knowledge that they ewere ther even if Saddam didn't invite them formally. Their ideology went beyond his desires.
E V I D E N C E ? ? ? I've never seen anything that said AQ was in Iraq before the invasion. Where's your proof?
Al Qaeda document
(must be true)| March 16 2008 | jveritas
Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:49:59 PM by jveritas
On February 17 2008, Al-Ekhlaas which is the largest terrorist forum on the internet published an Al Qaeda document that talks about the life of Abou Musaab Al Zarqawi and indicates that Zarqawi came to Iraq before the war to prepare the terrorist insurgency against the US troops.
(where does this information come from?) According to the document Zarqawi arrived to the Sunni areas in central Iraq. This document was written by one of Al Qaeda top leaders called Saif Al Adel.
There were many accounts about Zarqawi presence in Iraq before the war in particular in Northern Iraq with Ansar Al Islam an active Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist group that was present in the Kurdish areas of Iraq long before the war started.
(ok, where is the evidence of these accounts? Can we be sure they're accurate?) The document also proves that Ansar Al Islam helped Al Qaeda members establish themselves in Iraq before the war started.
(PROVES? Let's see the proof!) Are you sure it's not just some guy saying this AQ leader helped get it started in Iraq? You lose a lot of ability when people can't trust their intelligence community anymore, see how that works...)
The author of the document wrote that there were no relations between Saddam regime and Al Qaeda but this does not negate at all the most important fact that Al Qaeda was in Iraq before the war for the sole purpose of preparing for its most important front to fight the U.S
(how exactly would AQ know the US was planning an invasion of Iraq and how would they know to ''prepare for it's most important front to fight the US'' in Iraq without that information?) and it is now in Iraq where Al Qaeda is suffering its most crushing defeat since its existence.
It is very important to note that despite the author of the document denial of a relationship between Saddam regime and Al Qaeda it does not mean that Saddam regime was not aware of Al Qaeda presence in Iraq. In fact the documents clearly points out that Zarqawi went to the Sunni areas in Central Iraq before the war and these areas were totally controlled and loyal to Saddam regime and it very hard to imagine that Zarqawi stayed and prepared his terrorist sleepers cells in these Sunni areas without the approval of Saddam regime.
(why the hell would the leader of a country responsible for millions of people allow a known international terrorist organization to operate within it's borders, especially knowing full well the impact it could have on future political issues?
The only thing Bush got wrong was that saddam didn't control them, but they were there and we knew that much. Saddam plus Al Queda was the tipping point.
Yup, there's that amazing intelligence we had again... Ever stop to think shit like this may not be all that accurate?
While I certainly agree that the present administration is the most inept ever (only 2 months!!), Bush was trying to defeat a clear terorist threat, and he did, we did. Now on to Afghanistan and Pakistan t o clean up the rest. Thankfully Mushariff is gone and Bush mad ea HUGE mistake by trusting him. After Mushariff was ousted Bush quickly stopped telling the Pak govt. our attack plans and we have since killed many top operatives ala Predator and reaper drones...
WOOOOOOW!!! That statement gets the BULLSHIT OF THE YEAR AWARD!! "Bush was trying to defeat a clear terrorist threat, and he did" Bahahahahahaha!!
I want some of what you're smoking man!! I'd love to be this satisfied with the US government! You must'a been on cloud 9 the past 8 years!
The only thing Bush accomplished regarding terrorism is, he created more of it, a loooot more of it. He did more than any AQ or Taliban recruiter EVER could have!
yes, only cowards run and hide... Hamas, Al Queda, etc. etc...
out.
Matter of opinion, you call them cowards, others regard them as patriots or heroes. (I do not)
