re: #40 Talking Point Detective

Intelligence that wasn’t sufficiently vetted - with an eye towards the risky ramifications if it were wrong.

In fact, they deliberately undermined analysis that questioned the validity of the WMD evidence. That reflects, directly, a disregard for risk.

Indeed. I was actually in favor of the Iraq war for a very long time and I’m probably the only liberal on the planet who felt that way, WMDs or no. Now I think that revolution has to come from within. Anyone who enters a country will always be seen as an occupier even if they have the best intentions. And of course, it’s never that cut and dry.

The weapons inspectors had been in Iraq about 12 years prior to the U.S. invasion and they could never confirm what Hussein had, other than chemical warfare which he had already used on the Kurds, killing some 200,000 I believe. So the whole WMD was a ruse and I believe Bush knew that from the get go.