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To: Bilow who wrote (790839)	6/19/2014 10:23:45 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584328

>> If the US can't keep track of its own WMDs, why should we use the same problem in Iraq as an excuse to start a war that killed thousands after thousands and that continues to reverberate in the region? That's not what happened. Look, the intelligence was wrong. That is evident. It was not George Bush dreaming up the intelligence. You had the head of CIA telling him it was "slam dunk", you had every major western intelligence agency supporting the claim, President Clinton -- who hadn't been out of office that long believed it. Hell, even Hans Blix believed it (as he wrote in his book contemporaneously). Now, you have pointed out that you opposed the war beforehand, and that you were proved to be right. So did Barack Obama. But I have never subscribed to the theory that WMDs were THE reason. The decision had been made that Saddam had to go, a decision which I agreed with (but I thought he should have been removed the first time he violated the terms of the cease fire agreement, which was effectively an act of war and was grounds for restarting the previous engagement). Regardless of the outcome, the United States could ill afford to have this dictator leading us around by the nose. He had to go. It was the right thing to do, but the cost proved to be very high. A lot of prognostications were wrong. But it doesn't change the fact that given the information that was available at the time, the war was the correct decision. And the time that decision had to be made was 2003, not 2014. It was a mistake, but not a stupid mistake.