#35
Thu, 8 Jul 2004 - 01:01
Here were the key points that the Bushies made for the war in Iraq, ordered for convenience:
a) Saddam Hussein had WMD
b) Saddam Hussein was in collusion with Al Qaeda
c) Iraq was likely to or already had given Al Qaeda support in the form of WMD
d) Hussein was an imminent threat to Americans and Israelis
e) Hussein was a monster and did horrible things to his own people
f) It really didn't matter anyways because all the oil in the country was going to more than pay for the cost of reconstruction
REBUTTAL
a) Was a complete lie. Nobody had any solid intelligence dated after 1998 that said Saddam had WMD (remember 1998 was when Clinton bombed all their weapons stockpiles out of existence, thus eliminating Saddam's WMD).
b) Another lie, and one they keep repeating. The 9/11 commission as well as several other investigative bodies has said that there is absolutely no evidence that Iraq had any relationship at all with Qaeda, in fact Hussein's regime was openly hostile to religious extremism and he made it impossible for terrorists to work in his country (excluding a single training camp in the Kurdish territory to the north that Saddam had no control of). Al Qaeda members close to Bin Laden have gone on the record and said that they hated Saddam as well. There simply wasn't a relationship.
c) Saddam was a psychopath, a sociopath and a despot. People like that who have power are rabidly interested in keeping power. That much speaks for itself. If Saddam had even had weapons to supply to the terrorists that he wasn't even dealing with, he wouldn't have done so. His power was force, and giving up any amount of his ability to inflict that power would have been completely contrary to how he operated. If your power is in your gun and you give your gun to somebody else then you have no power anymore.
d) Well there weren't any WMD, and furthermore there weren't any missiles or planes capable of leaving Iraq and delivering any kind of payload to Israel, much less the U.S. Another lie.
e) Sure, but not any more than other regimes that we support throughout the world, like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Need I bring up that the majority of the hijackers on Sept. 11 were Saudis? Oops, looks like I just did.
f) Oh snap, the American taxpayer is getting slapped with a $150+ billion fine? Where's the massive oil revenue?