More trouble for Cheney

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I am not the one selling it. The UN is and was and passed many resolutions saying so and mostly unanimously.

I was clearly talking about this administration, but you must have missed that in your zeal to play devil's advocate or King of Argumentation yet again. Again, whether or not the United Nations thought he had weapons, the Bush administration invaded. They did not have the support of the UN, they had no coalition to speak of, and went about it unilaterally. Let's not even get into how they possibly violated international law as a member of the UN that completely disregarded rules outlined in the UN charter. Daniel Webster must have been spinning over in his grave when the administration invoked the words "imminent threat."

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Again, for over a decade, they had been killing in the name of these WMD via Oil for Food, no fly zones, etc. If you can show that is an erroneous statement - let's see it.

And you seem to think I'm excusing that?

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

So, the world thought they were there and must share in some of the blame for W adhering to that line of thought, though I readily agree W took the killing in their name to a much higher level. In the end, if you think there were no WMD (from when exactly I am unsure) - then the world has been wrong for over a decade.

Of course anyone who thought there were weapons has been wrong. And this administration knew there were no weapons. That is my point. They suppressed intel that proved that assertion and puffed up intel that contradicted it so that they could invade. End of story.

And I don't think they had any weapons to speak of since the early nineties.