Iraq: We broke the pot (1 Viewer)

[liberalman]

On March 19, 2003, American military forces began Operation: Iraqi Freedom, under the impression that Sadam Hussein was a threat to us. Yet even though he was a ruthless dictator who stood against everything America stands for, we had other problems to deal with: including finding Bin Laden. I guess it's Bob Woodward's pottery barn rule: once you break it, ur stuck with it. Now that we're in their, we have to clean up the mess we started, even though The War in Iraq was based on no intelligence. Also, it surprises me that the commander-in-chief of the United States didn't have the government intelligence to know that 9/11 was not a link to Saddam Hussein. Yet we broke the pot, so we have to pay the price.

 

[ProudAmerican]

welcome to the forum................

now for a little education............

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." -- From a letter signed by Joe Lieberman, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara A. Milulski, Tom Daschle, & John Kerry among others on October 9, 1998

"Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed." -- Madeline Albright, 1998

"(Saddam) will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and some day, some way, I am certain he will use that arsenal again, as he has 10 times since 1983" -- National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Feb 18, 1998

"The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow." -- Bill Clinton in 1998

"As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." -- Nancy Pelosi, December 16, 1998

"Even today, Iraq is not nearly disarmed. Based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM [the U.N. weapons inspectors] suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents. Iraq probably retains several tons of the highly toxic VX substance, as well as sarin nerve gas and mustard gas. This agent is stored in artillery shells, bombs, and ballistic missile warheads. And Iraq retains significant dual-use industrial infrastructure that can be used to rapidly reconstitute large-scale chemical weapons production." -- Ex-Un Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter in 1998

what intelligence do you think they were going by?

 

[liberalman]

i was talking about international intelligence. We are a world power, and the commander-in-chief of the United States of America wasn't able to determine if a country posed a threat or not. Some of those statements were written a long time ago, and i really don't care who said what, but the fact we didn't know they didn't pose a threat. We went in without a plan, and that was due to jumping to conclusions