.in fact the President dealt with a gathering threat....and the world is better off for it...
Incorrect.
The report confirms what all now suspect - that Hussein was impotent.
At the time of the invasion, Saddam had less capability than he had 10 years prior. Far less. Gulf War I, Sanctions, No-Fly Zone, and vigillance kept Saddam contained. The report confirms that containment worked.
The report confirms that he was losing capability, not regaining it.
Now the Bush administration and GW himself, left with nothing else to hang their stetsons on, is making pronouncements on Saddam's "intent".
Left with no hard facts (no stock piles, no factories, no labs, no centrifuge parts, no NOTHING) Bush is reduced to telling us in colourful language that Saddam was bad, and wanted to be badder, despite no ability to become the world threatening meanie he wanted to be.
Meanwhile, any smart terrorist has probably used the massive distraction of the past two years to plan something nasty and for all we know is in the middle of executing their plan. |
