Oops! No WMDs anywhere. Sorry.
Search for Banned Arms In Iraq Ended Last Month
Critical September Report to Be Final Word
Four months after Charles A. Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress that contradicted nearly every prewar assertion about Iraq made by top Bush administration officials, a senior intelligence official said the findings will stand as the ISG's final conclusions and will be published this spring.
Thanks for lying to the American public with your insipid propaganda and fear-mongering, Bush Administration!
posted by Chuck Olsen @ 7:33 AM |
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What alternative universe are you living in?
The search was for WMDs that existed in Iraq in 2002.
You know, the reason we went to war with them.
Oh wait. They weren't there.
How many died because of this "mistake"?
Well, we'll just have to go to Syria and get them then.
Think I'm kidding?
of course, if you want to play that game, one can ask what superpower was funding iraq during the iran/iraq war, correct? now, if you'll excuse me, i'll be nattily attired on market street with my aluminum foil hat.
Actually, to be completely accurate, I don't think we funded Iraq during the Iran/Iraq War. However, we did let them take a peek at satellite and other intelligence we developed in the area. We were, as Henry Kissinger might put it, diplomatically "tilted" toward Iraq (the Iranians were what we were worried about at the time). So really, the official US policy at the time was to not give a shit if Kurds or Iranians were being gassed. Funny how certain people bring it up now, when it's a convenient item for their talking points, even though I really doubt that they too, gave a shit, or even knew about it, at the time it happened.
No, we pretty much provided arms and material support to Iraq in its war with Iran. We also provided training and intel.
It was a proxy war fought for punative reasons. We never gave enough to allow Iraq to win, only to hurt Iran with the full knowledge that the effort would keep Iraq stressed and weakened.
Punish Iran, keep Iraq down. If you didn't want to actually deal with either, this wasn't a bad plan. However, the notion the US built up Iraq's military as evidenced by military aid in the Iran Iraq war ignores the effect of the war itself.
Without US aid, Iraq wouldn't have continued and without that continuation Iraq would have been stronger militarily than they ended up.
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