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Originally Posted by matthew330
I think the thing to notice is this: You acknowledge that it took 10 monthts ("Right around the time that it was getting clear") that WMD weren't in Iraq. I never needed WMD physically being found to justify going in there. The fact is that we had to go in there to make it clear, as you just pointed out. I've said this before, but I remember specifically President Bush saying "It's not up to us to prove he has WMD, it's up to him to prove he doesn't." He's had them, he's used them, and for 10 years he dicked with weapons inspectors. This was obviously never a good enough reason for the left, so why not throw out some of the other million and one reasons that justify this war, IMO.
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Wait, we just went in there to make it clear? It already seemed pretty clear to the chicken hawks that iraq did have wmds. In fact, i seem to remember a thread or two here on the tfp where a sentiment similar to "all you libs are gonna feel real stupid when we find wmd's" was expressed. The clarity already existed before we invaded. That there weren't actually wmd's should be a shock to no one.
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And we're still bickering about weapons that were finding. Didn't we just find 500 containers of Sarin gas. The Dems saying "well that's not the WMD we were talking about". When Saddam should have been disclosing everything, why didn't we know about this 5 years ago.
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I don't know. We did seem to know an awful lot about wmd's that didn't actually exist. This seems like a more important question to me. Why hussein didn't tell us about useless ex-wmd's buried in iraq seems like an irrelevant question.
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He had proven himself willing to use WMD, he had booted the inspectors out for 4 years once leaving himself free to do whatever he wanted, and he continued to dick with inspectors. That's why we went to war. Not because we proved there was WMD prior to, but because there was evidence he did and Saddam didn't use the opportunity to prove us wrong.
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I think you're intepretation is wrong. Clearly the evidence suggests that the bush administration was interested in invading iraq from very early on. Following 9.11 bush apparently sought a way to connect the attacks and hussein. The hunt for wmd's was just a convenient excuse. I think the more likely scenario is that the current admin wanted to invade iraq and figured out a way to sell the american people on it.