Cheney: WMD or not, Iraq invasion was correct

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

I NEVER did. and neither did many other Ledgies. Im sure we werent the ONLY ones who didnt see Saddam with WMD. How many people did Clinton kill Jason? a FRACTION of what Bush the First or Bush the Second killed. Those Bushies more than any others knew that SH didnt have WMD any longer because Desert Storm effectively crippled SH from being any real threat. If SH had such weapons, I think he would have used them the first time, against us in Desert Storm.

Face it, YOU Jason, along with 90% of the rest of the Sheeple, believed the propaganda. I believed in my heart otherwise and time has proven me right.

btw, not EVERY nation was ready to jump on the WMD bandwagon if I recall correctly. Especially with Monkey Boy, there was quite a LOT of international opposition. France, China, Russia come to mind...

You are irrelevant to my point. You are not the leader of a world country. You do not vote in the UN. They are the people I was talking about and they unanimously voted to keep the inspections going because they thought SH had WMD. That is a fact you cannot refute.

And - even if Clinton killed one - that is enough - but, surely you realize the boycotts during the Clinton Admin. killed tens of thousands and more by some estimates. But, you cannot go against him ever and that is rather pathetic. And, even more pathetic is you cannot see that the situation in Iraq cannot be considered W's baby alone. W did not come into office and say "Hey, America, there is the country you have never heard of called Iraq and I am going to invade them" - No, he said:

1. the evidence mostly available for the last ten years indicated SH had WMD

2. SH is a sworn enemy of the US

3. 9/11 means we no longer can tolerate a dangerous variable such as SH, who has used WMD before, has invaded US allies, etc.

So, W got UN approval for inspections and they, after a final balk by SH, went ahead.

The world through their leaders was on board with the UN andthe US up until this point

Then, W's malfeasance showed. He stopped the inspections before they were completed and invaded Iraq. This is where I and the world stopped supporting W - though I knew it would take invading Iraq to get to the real truth because I failed to see how anyone could trust SH, a player you interestingly fail to fault in this case. Do you not realize that if SH had allowed inspections of his entire country per his agreement at the end of DS, this would not be happening?

But, you cannot admit that. You want to think W is solely responsible for all of the misery in Iraq and no one can ever share that blame.

Let me put it this way - after 9/11, would you have been comfortable with no inspections in Iraq when all the evidence pointed to him having WMD and the prior US Administration told you SH had them. Should W have done nothing in Iraq? If you answer yes, W should have left Iraq alone and had no inspections, then I am afraid you have no credibility.