cthulu23

Which justification for war are we talking about this time...phantom WMDs or the suffering of the Iraqi people?

I'm no fan of brutal dictators, but Saddam's butchery was not the reason that was originally used to sell this boondoggle to the American public. We were told, over and over again, what an imminent threat Saddam was to our safety with his active nuclear program and tons of chemical weapons, although we haven't been able to find much evidence of said WMDs. We were told that Saddam had attempted to purchase uranium and was involved with the 9-11 tragedy, neither of which has been proven in the slightest. All in all, Bush and Co. furiously spun bad intelligence to sell this invasion to a country already involved in another (more legitimate) war.

Now we are supposed to forget all of that misinformation and convince ourselves that we really went in there to liberate the people...yeah, that's it. Never mind the fact that Wolfowitz, Perle and company have been advocating the invasion if Iraq for use as a stable Middle East base of operations for the last decade....how could that have anything to do with our humanitarian crusade?

You say that this war has been a long time coming....perhaps the starting point of that "long time" was at this instant? If our relationships with Diem or Noriega were any indicator, we have a tendency to take down the thugs that we champion.