The "takeaway" that most people got out of all the talk of WMD was that this was this was the only justification for going to war, and that since Hussein did not have WMD the war was unjustified. The fact is, that there were many reasons for taking out Hussein, the liklihood of WMDs being only one of them. The administration had decided weeks earlier that Saadam had to go...troops were mobilized and positioned and the hope was that they could force him into exile. Regardless, he was non compliant with the Gulf treaty, constantly pushing and testing the no-fly zone, stalling inspectors, end running sanctions.....in general being a source of instability that the U.S could not live with. The media seized upon the WMD report, and the administration went with it...certain that Hussein had WMDs...which is now proved to be true. The war would have happened anyway, whether or not there were WMDs. the report only disarms the people that accuse Bush of 'lying'.All the intel and run up to the war was suggesting Iraqi still had a massive complex WMD program that was growing, and a nuclear program. (Which, there was no active nuclear program.)
That has turned out to be false.
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Wed, Oct 15, 2014 10:05 PM
Oct 15, 2014 10:05 PM
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