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Dong! Fail. Hans Blix. Talking points again? Sorry, but avoiding the facts isn't going to make this Prog/Lib meme any more factual. It's always been fun to read Blix's call that the inspections were going well. I guess if the standard is to be shut out of sites, and to be kicked out of the country are standards of excellence, he has a point. But really, not good for your meme.http://www.debatepolitics.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1063401718
Read the reports, or just continue to carry the water.
On the contrary. Bush's strategy for Iraq involved action, shaping events and setting the conditions necessary for the building and self-sustainment of security infrastructure.
Perhaps it would be wise to read the reports, and the one's that followed, before continuing to prove you desire to embrace the Progressive memes rather than the facts.
Focus on the ones where Iraqi officials refused access, and kicked out inspectors when they closed in on facilities their investigations indicated were suspicious.
The Bush strategy was basically to provoke a civil war.
No. That was the strategy of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the then-leader of the Islamist State in the Land of the Two Rivers. You really should not comment on matters where you know so little that you are forced to just make crap up.
You still cannot back up your ridiculous claim that Bush and Reagan gave Saddam WMD. You are simply being a typical leftist disseminating disinformation and crude, defamatory anti-USA propaganda.
Name one that Malaki has.No. There's a definite morale boost to having powerful friends in the fight with you. Plus, we bring a big force multiplier in terms of intelligence and logistics.eace
Sure, Senate reports, dozens of articles from mainstream media isn't proof....
Video Clip: "Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein," Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983.
Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein
In a September 26, 2002, article entitled “Following Iraq's Bioweapons Trail,” columnist Robert Novak wrote,
An eight-year-old Senate report confirms that disease-producing and poisonous materials were exported, under U.S. government license, to Iraq from 1985 to 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war. Furthermore, the report adds, the American-exported materials were identical to microorganisms destroyed by United Nations inspectors after the Gulf War. The shipments were approved despite allegations that Saddam used biological weapons against Kurdish rebels and (according to the current official U.S. position) initiated war with Iran.
WE KNOW HOW 'LIBERAL' BOB NOVAK WAS RIGHT? LOL
Reagan's WMD Connection to Saddam Hussein by Jacob Hornberger
Unfortunately, the U.S.-WMD connection to Saddam Hussein involved more than just delivering those WMDs to him. In an August 18, 2002, New York Times article entitled “Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas,” Patrick E. Tyler wrote,
A covert American program during the Reagan administration provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence agencies knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war, according to senior military officers with direct knowledge of the program.
Reagan's WMD Connection to Saddam Hussein by Jacob Hornberger
:shrug: Pakistan, for example.
Got it, you're a neocon and will hold onto ANYTHING to justify the horrible decision to invade Iraq on false premises
"Rebuilding America's Defenses" – A Summary
Blueprint of the PNAC Plan for U.S. Global Hegemony
Some people have compared it to Hitler's publication of Mein Kampf, which was ignored until after the war was over.
"REBUILDING AMERICA'S DEFENSES" – A Summary
The Bush Administration paid Shia tribes and militants to attack the Sunni establishment.
Just because Obama has made a mess out of Iraq doesn't change who ordered the invasion. For some reason you are unable to see but one side of the situation. Wake up and see the whole picture.
"Blueprint for Global Hegemony"? What is this? A scene out of a poorly written cartoon?
Name it please? When, where and source
We can't un-invade.
Not a single article you linked to backs up your absolutely ridiculous contention that Reagan and Bush gave Saddam WMD.Sure, Senate reports, dozens of articles from mainstream media isn't proof....
So we are still stuck with George W. Bush's ****-up.
If by "sunni establishment" you mean the Saddam Regime. Which we also paid Kurds and Sunni to attack. That lasted about 30 seconds until we toppled them. The US expended quite a lot of blood and treasure to keep Iraq from descending into a Civil War. Your claim is either completely uninformed, or insane.
In late 2006 or early 2007, in what journalist Seymour Hersh called The Redirection, the United States changed its policy in the Muslim world, shifting its support from the Shia to the Sunni, with the goal of "containing" Iran and as a by-product bolstering Sunni extremist groups.[181] Richard Engel, who is an NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent, wrote an article in late 2011 alleging that the United States Government is pro-Sunni and anti-Shia.
Today we appear to be supporting the Sunnis against the Shi'ites just about everywhere, and have sided with the Saudi and Bahraini governments as they repress their Shi'ites. When the Americans were in Iraq, the administration went to great lengths to develop a "Sunni strategy," while seeming purposefully to overlook the small problem that the majority of Iraqis happen to be Shi'ites. The U.S. openly frets about Syria's murderous government, which is allied with Iran, while again disregarding the irritant that most of the Syrian opposition is composed of Sunni fundamentalist factions – frequently more at war with each other than they are with Bashar al-Assad -- and who are outspokenly and viciously anti-Western. Why should we in the U.S. support these Sunnis -- backed by our supposed Turkish, Saudi, or Qatari allies, against the Shi'ites and their allies -- when both they and the Iranian-supported Shi'ites are equally anti-American and anti-Western?
Sure, Senate reports, dozens of articles from mainstream media isn't proof....
Video Clip: "Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein," Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983.
Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein
In a September 26, 2002, article entitled “Following Iraq's Bioweapons Trail,” columnist Robert Novak wrote,
An eight-year-old Senate report confirms that disease-producing and poisonous materials were exported, under U.S. government license, to Iraq from 1985 to 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war. Furthermore, the report adds, the American-exported materials were identical to microorganisms destroyed by United Nations inspectors after the Gulf War. The shipments were approved despite allegations that Saddam used biological weapons against Kurdish rebels and (according to the current official U.S. position) initiated war with Iran.
WE KNOW HOW 'LIBERAL' BOB NOVAK WAS RIGHT? LOL
Reagan's WMD Connection to Saddam Hussein by Jacob Hornberger
Unfortunately, the U.S.-WMD connection to Saddam Hussein involved more than just delivering those WMDs to him. In an August 18, 2002, New York Times article entitled “Officers Say U.S. Aided Iraq in War Despite Use of Gas,” Patrick E. Tyler wrote,
A covert American program during the Reagan administration provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance at a time when American intelligence agencies knew that Iraqi commanders would employ chemical weapons in waging the decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war, according to senior military officers with direct knowledge of the program.
Reagan's WMD Connection to Saddam Hussein by Jacob Hornberger
Not a single article you linked to backs up your absolutely ridiculous contention that Reagan and Bush gave Saddam WMD.
Right. Otherwise they would not have noticed we were gone. Actually we should have made Iraq our 51st State. Then at least we would have had a reason to invade.
:lol: the 1990s, when they conquered (most) of the country through their proxy, with regular support.
Name one that Malaki has.
oh, wait, John (crybaby) Boner.
When TF did America become Iraq's ally? Before we invaded, or after we left?
Like it or not, we went into Iraq, over 4000 American troops were killed, the surge won the war, and Obama has lost the peace. So much blood and treasure lost thanks to the incompetence of this Administration and our Community Agitator President. No leadership skills at all. The Status of Forces Agreement was negotiated by Bush and squandered by Obama. On behalf of the three family members that I had who served in Iraq and the 4000+ Americans who died there let me express my disgust for this President, his Administration, and supporters. You people don't have a clue and we are in more danger today than when Obama took office.
Like it or not, we went into Iraq, over 4000 American troops were killed, the surge won the war, and Obama has lost the peace. So much blood and treasure lost thanks to the incompetence of this Administration and our Community Agitator President. No leadership skills at all. The Status of Forces Agreement was negotiated by Bush and squandered by Obama. On behalf of the three family members that I had who served in Iraq and the 4000+ Americans who died there let me express my disgust for this President, his Administration, and supporters. You people don't have a clue and we are in more danger today than when Obama took office.
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