Australian knew Iraq didn't have any WMDs (This article from Australia, a member of the Coalition of the Willing.)
The US twisted UN inspector reports to make it sound like Iraq had WMDs (This article from Britain, a member of the Coalition of the Willing)
The US misrepresented it's own intelligence in making the case against Iraq's WMDs (This article from the United States, King Shit in the Coalition of the Willing)
Am I glad Saddam and his two boys are out of power? Of course. Just as I want to see the human rights violations in North Korea, the Congo, Uzbekistan, and China come to an end, I'm glad the terror the Husseins inflicted on their own people is over. If that's why we went to war, then we deserve the accolades of the world, and perhaps, by example, the other oppressive regimes in the world will feel threatened by the Bush Administration's iron hammer of justice.
But that's not why we went to war. We went to war because Iraq had WMDs and "stockpiles" of nerve agents and blah-blah-disinformation-blah. The evidence that the administration indeed lied about Iraq's capabilities is growing.
Oh, but we went to war because Iraq supported and/or harbored terrorism. So does Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Egypt, the Phillippines, ad nauseum. Are we planning wars with them? (Probably.)
The only "preemption" in the preemptive strike was to show the world we aren't going to be screwed around. Thus, we decimated the one evil regime that (a) we could lay claim to and (b) we knew we could take. Hard to believe it's called the Department of Defense -- there was nothing defensive about it.
So to all the Ann Coulters and Joe Scarboroughs and Bill O'Reillys and Michael Savages and Sean Sinitskis of the world who now say that those of us who opposed the war are now looking for any excuse to justify ourselves for opposing something that freed a country of an evil dictator, y'all can all suck my ass.
I'm glad the Iraqi people are liberated. In fact, I'm jealous of them because they're getting universal healthcare and gun control, things that you would never stand for here. Liberation, however, is not why we went to Iraq, and the reasons that were used were lies. Apologize for Bush all you want -- he lied.
Clinton lied to Congress. Bush lied to the world. Which do you think is more impeachable?


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