I see that as the view of people who are emotionally invested in opposing the President; it is a view that is simply not supported by the facts. The war in Iraq was not pre-determined. Saddam could have come clean and cooperated with the UN Security Council, but he thought he could bluff his way out of the mess. Ironically, his outstandingly successful bluff about having WMD was what sealed his fate.
The issue of 9/11 and the Iraq War is not causality, it is the deeply paranoid mindset that the attacks created inside the U.S. government. In one day, we went from thinking about issues like Iraq, Afghanistan, the USS Cole bombing, etc. in regional terms to thinking about them in terms of how events "over there" could trigger further attacks on our shores. 9/11, as G indicted for himself, put most of the country in a mood to stomp the guts out of our enemies. The US was this wounded giant, casting around for any enemy to stomp. Saddam, already an enemy of the US, made the terrible miscalculation of poking the wounded giant in the eye, and he got stomped for it. On Jan 29, 2008 9:58 AM, Matt Quackenbush wrote: > 9/11 was most certainly *not* the cause of our invasion of Iraq. It was > the > _excuse_ that Bush so desperately needed and desired to engage the > American > public and congress in backing his intentions of war. Period. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:252364 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
