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Originally Posted by abscondo
Look, everyone understood when we went into Afghanistan after 9/11. It was clear what had to be done and why. Almost everyone was on our side. Then, before we finished the necessary work in Afghanistan, our esteemed president decided we had to invade Iraq ... where it wasn't at all clear why we wanted to invade. Nobody found our WMD arguments convincing, and for good reason, as it turned out.
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we've already acknowledged bad intelligence, this bad intelligence even went back as far as clinton so why are you only jumping the bush administration?
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Originally Posted by abscondo
As to your other point ... yes, it's true that some of our traditional allies were making money off the Iraq sanctions. But guess what -- so were American companies. Only gosh darn it, the law doesn't allow them to reveal which ones. Isn't that convenient?
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I would hope that there are conservatives/republicans who are just as displeased and disconcerted about that as I am.
The bottom line is this - Regime change has been US policy for over 10 years, thats back when clinton was president also, and it wasn't going to be done by continuing UN sanctions. All that would have done was allow Hussein to gather with his new european allies (france, germany) and restart his weapons programs again. It would only have been a matter of time before Israel would have had to nuke the weapons sites for their own national security and then there'd be a lot of hell to pay. I'd say we nipped that in the bud pretty well now.