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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bill who wrote (756857)12/13/2013 9:11:05 AM
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The whole country was lead to believe that Saddam's 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' needed to be found and eliminated. Good citizens believe what their elected leaders are telling them especially after supposedly profound evidence of their existence was front and center in the media at the time.

This was not a quick decision to invade Iraq. It was a calculated plan on multiple fronts. The design was to win the will of a nation and of course the United Nations. The former was accomplished while the latter was not.

After the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf war the UN located and destroyed large quantities of Iraqi chemical weapons and related equipment and materials throughout the early 1990s, with varying degrees of Iraqi cooperation and obstruction. In response to diminishing Iraqi cooperation with the United Nations the US called for withdrawal of all UN inspectors in 1998. The United States and the UK asserted that Saddam Hussein still possessed large hidden stockpiles of WMD in 2003, and that he was clandestinely procuring and producing more. Inspections by the UN to resolve the status of unresolved disarmament questions restarted from November 2002 until March 2003. No weapons were found.

And now as history tells it, after years of looking, no 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' were ever found.

President Bush later said that the biggest regret of his presidency was "the intelligence failure" in Iraq, while the Senate Intelligence Committee found in 2008 that his administration "misrepresented the intelligence and the threat from Iraq.
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