What I Heard About Iraq

[reprehensor]

What I Heard About Iraq

In 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, I heard Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, say that the US had been wise not to invade Baghdad and get ‘bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq’. I heard him say: ‘The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is: not that damned many.’

In February 2001, I heard Colin Powell say that Saddam Hussein ‘has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.’

That same month, I heard that a CIA report stated: ‘We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programmes.’

In July 2001, I heard Condoleezza Rice say: ‘We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt.’

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(really long, really good, continued at link)

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I posted this awhile back as the most complete recounting of

our recent history and the Bush administration that I have found.

[reprehensor]

3. I missed that.

[MemphisTiger]

2. Why didn't the MSM talk about this during the election?

So much for Librul media bias

[applegrove]

4. Then he read a memo that said that if they did not fix what they destroyed

in the Middle East there would be one big Islamist state control 1/2 the World's Oil till the end of err Oil! Cheney & Co. used to make the deals that kept the strong men in place. Strongmen who used to give good prices to US oil companies and fund terrorists. Then Cheney realized that he and his ilk would go down in history as the biggest dupes and enablers of terrorists and America's downfall, unless they got control of the oil dollars and put democracies in place.

Why do you think they were so panicked to go to Iraq to start with? Because they saw the "mistake" they made. And how Saddam played them all for fools and destabilized the Mid East and American Assets there with the money they gave him.