US Republicans signal readiness to resume Iraq weapons probe
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Vince, do I still need any self-reinforcing regarding the lack of WMD in the administration's unilateral push to war? 
Fred, is this historical revisionism that even republicans are saying we need to figure out why there are no WMD and what exactly happened in the white house to push us to war? I mean, even republicans are saying they don't know whether or not the white house manipulated the evidence in order to sell their case.
Russ? You still have never been quite able to answer the question regarding WMD being the primary and practically sole reason we went into Iraq you know. Mostly just passed off claims of "It was to get rid of an evil dictator" and all that.
Just wondering. Cause that other thread was for shits and giggles and nothing more, but there seemed to be such an outcry. This one is downright serious, yet nothing?
Fred, is this historical revisionism that even republicans are saying we need to figure out why there are no WMD and what exactly happened in the white house to push us to war? I mean, even republicans are saying they don't know whether or not the white house manipulated the evidence in order to sell their case.
Russ? You still have never been quite able to answer the question regarding WMD being the primary and practically sole reason we went into Iraq you know. Mostly just passed off claims of "It was to get rid of an evil dictator" and all that.
Just wondering. Cause that other thread was for shits and giggles and nothing more, but there seemed to be such an outcry. This one is downright serious, yet nothing?
Sigh. You started it out with a biased premise: that its somehow the republican's fault that the inquiry stopped. I'd just love to get embroiled in a pointless partisan discussion about partisan politics.
And Natoma, I can't convince you that WMD wasn't the sole reason, nor that it was a big fat lie, so its pointless discussing it with you.
And Natoma, I can't convince you that WMD wasn't the sole reason, nor that it was a big fat lie, so its pointless discussing it with you.
Uhm, that's the title of the article Russ, which is how I usually start off threads where I'm linking to an article.
Is it about damn time the probe into what went wrong with Iraq got started up again? Definitely. So where do you see me blaming republicans? You tend to do that a lot you know, i.e. falsely assume.
WMD was the primary reason. The *entire* UN process was because of WMD. There are hundreds of quotes regarding WMD from the administration. Whether or not you want to put your head in the sand and go "la la la la la la la la la la la" regarding why we went to war with Iraq is not really up to me, but the true historical reason we went into Iraq was to get and destroy Saddam's WMD. You had all those quotes in the other thread from democrats and republicans alike stating Saddam's imminent threat with WMD. Yet I urge you to find a quote from any of those people saying we should circumvent the UN and go in unilaterally, outside of the administration. I said that everyone believed WMD in Iraq was true. But everyone outside the administration, including the american public until we went to war in March, believed in giving the UN process time to complete. So again, where is it pointless to discuss?
We've been in Iraq for 9 months now, and still we have not found any WMD. Is it because maybe they don't exist? Would we have found the same thing in the UN process? Definitely. Would it have saved hundreds of billions of our money, as well as hundreds of american lives? Definitely. Could this administration have worked it's argument to be "We need to stop dictatorships around the world and free peoples whenever we can?" Certainly.
Unfortunately for the last one, they had a chance to show their true mores earlier this year, and failed miserably. I point to the time it took for the administration to send merely a couple of hundred troops into Liberia simply to keep the peace. It took weeks for them to finally say "Ok fine, we'll send some troops. But not too many." Where was the eagerness to help free a people and stabilize a nation? So you'll forgive me if I take the humanitarian slant on Iraq with a large grain of salt.
Is it about damn time the probe into what went wrong with Iraq got started up again? Definitely. So where do you see me blaming republicans? You tend to do that a lot you know, i.e. falsely assume.
WMD was the primary reason. The *entire* UN process was because of WMD. There are hundreds of quotes regarding WMD from the administration. Whether or not you want to put your head in the sand and go "la la la la la la la la la la la" regarding why we went to war with Iraq is not really up to me, but the true historical reason we went into Iraq was to get and destroy Saddam's WMD. You had all those quotes in the other thread from democrats and republicans alike stating Saddam's imminent threat with WMD. Yet I urge you to find a quote from any of those people saying we should circumvent the UN and go in unilaterally, outside of the administration. I said that everyone believed WMD in Iraq was true. But everyone outside the administration, including the american public until we went to war in March, believed in giving the UN process time to complete. So again, where is it pointless to discuss?
We've been in Iraq for 9 months now, and still we have not found any WMD. Is it because maybe they don't exist? Would we have found the same thing in the UN process? Definitely. Would it have saved hundreds of billions of our money, as well as hundreds of american lives? Definitely. Could this administration have worked it's argument to be "We need to stop dictatorships around the world and free peoples whenever we can?" Certainly.
Unfortunately for the last one, they had a chance to show their true mores earlier this year, and failed miserably. I point to the time it took for the administration to send merely a couple of hundred troops into Liberia simply to keep the peace. It took weeks for them to finally say "Ok fine, we'll send some troops. But not too many." Where was the eagerness to help free a people and stabilize a nation? So you'll forgive me if I take the humanitarian slant on Iraq with a large grain of salt.
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I just loved this quote from the article as a reason the republicans were pressured into re-opening the case:
Is it still treason to call Emperor George totally clueless?
Is it still treason to call Emperor George totally clueless?
