Sarah - I don’t think they meant to lie about WMD. They had bad intelligence.
OR - Did Cheney and Rumsfeld cherry pick certain bits of info to convince a president who already wanted to attack Iraq?? That’s what I think happened. This is where Sarah’s naivety about republicans is a weakness. You still hold conservative values, fine, nothi…
Sarah - I don’t think they meant to lie about WMD. They had bad intelligence.
OR - Did Cheney and Rumsfeld cherry pick certain bits of info to convince a president who already wanted to attack Iraq?? That’s what I think happened. This is where Sarah’s naivety about republicans is a weakness. You still hold conservative values, fine, nothing wrong with that. But if you truly believed that the Bush II White House was duped into attacking Iraq then you need to check all the facts. Not swallow the neo-con fantasy.
That one stopped me in my tracks, too. Been a long time since somebody was like "yeah, Cheney and Rove were good dudes." :) You can take the girl out of the GOP, but....
At the time, everyone believed Saddam had chemical weapons. He had actually used chemical weapons against the Kurds and Iran. There was no reason at the time to believe he had unilaterally disarmed himself of those chemical weapons, even though that now appears to have been the case. And he did his best to make his neighbors think he still had those chemical weapons, for obvious reasons.
WMDs might have been a stupid pretext for invasion, but the pretext itself was not a lie, and it took no convincing since everyone already believed it.
Sarah - I don’t think they meant to lie about WMD. They had bad intelligence.
OR - Did Cheney and Rumsfeld cherry pick certain bits of info to convince a president who already wanted to attack Iraq?? That’s what I think happened. This is where Sarah’s naivety about republicans is a weakness. You still hold conservative values, fine, nothing wrong with that. But if you truly believed that the Bush II White House was duped into attacking Iraq then you need to check all the facts. Not swallow the neo-con fantasy.
That one stopped me in my tracks, too. Been a long time since somebody was like "yeah, Cheney and Rove were good dudes." :) You can take the girl out of the GOP, but....
Follow the money. Cheney. Halliburton.
At the time, everyone believed Saddam had chemical weapons. He had actually used chemical weapons against the Kurds and Iran. There was no reason at the time to believe he had unilaterally disarmed himself of those chemical weapons, even though that now appears to have been the case. And he did his best to make his neighbors think he still had those chemical weapons, for obvious reasons.
WMDs might have been a stupid pretext for invasion, but the pretext itself was not a lie, and it took no convincing since everyone already believed it.
Not everyone. I knew.