Reply #11: no, it was truly a crock of shit from start to finish. Even the CIA said before the war that if [View All]

[yurbud]

Saddam had WMD, an intentionally inflammatory replacement term for the perfectly servicable NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) warfare terminology used by the military for decades,even if Saddam had them he would not use them unless there was an actual attack on his hold on power, and even then he probably wouldn't, because he is not stupid. At best, Saddam would get what, a dozen, 20-30 nukes? If he launched a missile at us and it miraculously made it over here, before the mushroom cloud cleared, Iraq would be burned off the map.

If he gave them to terrorist, something the CIA also said was unlikely to happen, and that group used them against us, the result for Iraq would have been the same. In the summer of 2005, Dick Cheney commissioned war plans against Iran to be launched in response to a nuclear or conventional terrorist attack whether or not Iran was responsible. The bad guys in the Gulf are perfectly aware that Bush and Cheney will use any excuse to relieve them of their oil, and know it would be stupid to provide the excuse to them. The neocon argument that whole nations, not just a handful of fanatics, would commit suicide together has no historical precendent.

Likewise, every member of congress is old enought to remember the Cold War when we stared down an enemy who had as many or more nukes than us. No one fired because both sides knew neither would be left standing if they did. The calculus for rogue nations is even more obvious: they could hurt us at best, but their reward for that one or handful of lucky shots would be extinction.

Congressmen and senators are not retarded. They knew what the real deal was and either signed on out of cowardice, political expedience, or in hopes of being rewarded by those who profited from the war. Any of them who say otherwise are fucking liars, and you should put one hand over your wallet and the other over the orifice you cherish most, because someone lying like that is going to screw you in other ways too.