cicerone imposter wrote:There are other "murderous dictators" in this world. We attacked (again) Iraq on false pretenses of WMDs and Saddam's connection to al Qaida to "Protectd the American People" - which was never proven to hold water aftewards.
Why do you keep repeating these lies?
While there are other murderous dictators in the world, not replacing some, because we cannot replace all at the same time is an obviously irrational idea.
President Clinton claimed Saddam's regime possessed ready-to-use WMD. What evidence do you have that President Bush believed otherwise?
The al Qaeda base in northern Iraq was proven to exist by our invading troops.
Colin Powell presented five reasons for invading Iraq. Ready-to-use WMD was the only reason that turned out to be false. Al Qaeda in 2001 did re-establish their base in northern Iraq before our invasion of Afghanistan, and that base did in fact grow subsequent to our invasion of Afghanistan.
Quote:To the UN, Colin Powell alleged,
2/5/2003:
NEW:
www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm
1. Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi an associate and collaborator of Usama bin Laden and his al-Qaida lieutenants.
2. When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqawi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp, and this camp is located in northeastern Iraq. … Those helping to run this camp are Zarqawi lieutenants operating in northern Kurdish areas outside Saddam Hussein's controlled Iraq. But Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels of the radical organization Ansar al-Islam that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000, this agent offered al-Qaida safe haven in the region. After we swept al-Qaida from Afghanistan, some of those members accepted this safe haven. They remain there today.
3. We asked a friendly security service to approach Baghdad about extraditing Zarqawi and providing information about him and his close associates. This service contacted Iraqi officials twice and we passed details that should have made it easy to find Zarqawi. The network remains in Baghdad. Zarqawi still remains at large, to come and go.
The Bush administration advocated invading Iraq for the following five principal reasons:
1. Iraq has not disarmed as the UN demanded;
2. Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce ready-to-use WMD;
3. Iraq is harboring members of the al Qaeda confederation;
4. Three times in 2002 –2003, the US requested Saddam Hussein to remove Zarqawi, a leader of the AaI al Qaeda (i.e., Ansar an Islam al Qaeda) encamped in northern Iraq.
5. Saddam Hussein purposely perpetrates cruelty to his own citizens and neighbors.
Whether you believe all these reasons or not is beside the point. These were infact among the reasons given by President Bush and his administration for invading Iraq.
All but one of these reasons (No. 2) was proven true. The horrible magnitude of reason No. 5 continues to be discovered by our military forces in Iraq to be larger than any previous estimate.
