ultima said:
Bush administration didn't make up stuff, because they thought Iraq had WMD's, despite the fact that Iraq rejected these allegations, despite the fact that Iraq had complied with UN requests to allow inspectors, despite the fact that the UN, along with an earlier Iraqi defector, claimed that no WMD's could be found, despite the fact that integrity of whatever "evidence" that was forwarded was questioned, despite the fact that no WMD's were found post-conflict, instead of waiting for strong evidence for their claims to surface, despite the fact that, even if present, Iraqi WMD's would not be an imminent threat to the American public or interests. The only fascinating bit is that Bush and Cheney are not in a cell right now. Edit: I originally accused you of justifying the Iraq war. Edited after I saw your other post. My apologies. |
Well you've got about half of that wrong.
Though yeah.
Bush really didn't make anything up. He just used what was already there as a pretext simply because he had the naive belief that America had the ability to nation build. I actually think he beleived there were WMD's simply because he wanted to.
In general though you aren't giving bush enough credit. They didn't really comply with the UN inspectors fully, a couple of sketchy sources claimed WMDs and technically they did find WMDS. Just not WMD's that are particularly worrying enough to start a war over.
