CIA Chief: Saddam Wasn't Imminent Threat

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[CADsortaGUY]

REPOST

Currently have a thread on this statement by Tenet.

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[Gaard]

The urgency of the Iraqi threat was Bush's main argument for the war. But the president said Thursday he still would have invaded Iraq if he'd known no weapons stockpiles existed ? adding a new element to the much-debated question of whether the United States went to war based on faulty assumptions.

In other words, the existence of WMD wasn't needed as a justification for this war. So does someone, anyone, have a reasonable explanation why Bush pushed for this war primarily based on WMD?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Gaard
The urgency of the Iraqi threat was Bush's main argument for the war. But the president said Thursday he still would have invaded Iraq if he'd known no weapons stockpiles existed ? adding a new element to the much-debated question of whether the United States went to war based on faulty assumptions.

In other words, the existence of WMD wasn't needed as a justification for this war. So does someone, anyone, have a reasonable explanation why Bush pushed for this war primarily based on WMD?

Cause it might not sound as good if he had said "We need to attack Iraq to draw away attention from my inability to capture Osama Bin Laden or one of the other people behind 9/11!"

 

[Finality]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Gaard
The urgency of the Iraqi threat was Bush's main argument for the war. But the president said Thursday he still would have invaded Iraq if he'd known no weapons stockpiles existed ? adding a new element to the much-debated question of whether the United States went to war based on faulty assumptions.

In other words, the existence of WMD wasn't needed as a justification for this war. So does someone, anyone, have a reasonable explanation why Bush pushed for this war primarily based on WMD?

Cause it might not sound as good if he had said "We need to attack Iraq to draw away attention from my inability to capture Osama Bin Laden or one of the other people behind 9/11!"

Or better yet "Daddy told me to do it so I did it."

 

[Pers]

hahaha. i think bush's punishment for misleading the world should be to give saddam head.

 

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I feel much safer now.

My average REM sleep time has risen .1 nanoseconds since the invasion of Iraq.

-Robert