Doms just posted proof that weapons inspectors had been kicked out of iraq prior to us invading. or maybe it was you who posted proof and Doms pointed it out. it had nothing to do with fear and a desire to believe for me.
personally i consider sadam an evil individual and a good thing he is out of power regardless of the reasons for going in. hey much of the reasons for going in turned out to be false. everyone saw the same information and everyone agreed it was needed. it turned out to be wrong. we cant change that now. our information gatherers need to do a better job i agree. i dont consider evidence having been manufactured however and the point still stands we are there now and pointing fingers still doesnt solve the problem.
but you keep doing your thing and complaining we shouldnt be there in the first place and the rest of the world will still move on in this convoluted mess looking for an answer while you complain about something you cant change
Of course the WMD inspectors left Iraq before the attack:
1. they could have hung around and been killed in the invasion or
2. they could have listened to our government's advice:
"Late last night... I was advised by the US Government to pull out our inspectors from Baghdad," the UN's chief nuclear weapons inspector Mohammed ElBaradei said on Monday.
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Inspectors urged to leave Iraq
Everyone saw the same "evidence" that was prettied up by Powell and feith and passed off as incontrovertible.
Bush actively ignored any countervailing evidence to the "Iraq is a deadly WMD threat to the US" charade.
Bush based his most damning WMD allegations on what a con-man cab driver from Iraq said. Remember the insider Curveball?
We went to war with Iraq largely b/c of the evidence Curveball provided.
On the "No WMD" side of the issue, we have
Naji Sabri, Saddam's foreign minister.
I would say he has a bit more credibility than Curveball the cab-driver, don't you?
And who in the hell does Bush think he is to disregard any countervailing evidence re the WMDs? He should be impeached on that basis alone.
You see biochem, we don't want to start wars if we don't have to start wars. War should never be the first option. It should be the last resort. All the death, destruction and loss and what not should be avoided if possible.
Don't you think?
"On April 23, 2006, CBS's "60 Minutes" interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed that the agency had received documentary intelligence from
Naji Sabri, Saddam's foreign minister, that Saddam did not have WMD. "We continued to validate him the whole way through," said Drumheller. "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy."
Both the French intelligence service and the CIA paid Sabri hundreds of thousands of dollars (at least $200,000 in the case of the CIA) to give them documents on Saddam's WMD programs. "The information detailed that Saddam may have wished to have a program, that his engineers had told him they could build a nuclear weapon within two years if they had fissile material, which they didn't, and that they had no chemical or biological weapons," one of the former CIA officers told me.
On the eve of Sabri's appearance at the United Nations in September 2002 to present Saddam's case, the officer in charge of this operation met in New York with a "cutout" who had debriefed Sabri for the CIA. Then the officer flew to Washington, where he met with CIA deputy director John McLaughlin, who was "excited" about the report. Nonetheless, McLaughlin expressed his reservations. He said that Sabri's information was at odds with "our best source." That source was code-named "Curveball," later exposed as a fabricator, con man and former Iraqi taxi driver posing as a chemical engineer."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/print.html