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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (763587)	7/19/2007 3:03:30 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

(And, the resolution was actually sold to the public and congress at the time as merely a tactic to bring pressure on Saddam to cooperate with the UN's and the IAEC's weapon's inspectors... as a way to 'force' him to play ball... a stick to motivate him, not as a formal start to hostilities. When Saddam actually let the inspectors [both sets] go about their tasks though, it didn't seem to matter much to Bush.... It was actually Bush who ordered the inspectors out of Iraq, not Saddam. It's possible that Bush was concerned that - because the inspectors were not finding any WMD - that if he let them continue he might lose the public's support for a war.) Maybe this is part of the reason for the "malaise"....after all, once the WMD were not found people turned back to 9/11 and what had happened to our nation by the Saudis and Osama and others who had attacked us...We are stuck in Iraq at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. If we were chasing Osama and his cohorts over hill and dale in Afghanistan (or whereever) even now, five years later, I think people's attitude toward the "conflict" would be different. Richard Clarke's book had some great quotes about trying to get the neocons to turn their heads away from the upcoming adventure in Iraq and back to the source of the attacks....