O.K. bush didnt lie....he was mislead..sounds plausible considering he isnt the smartest kid on the block. Maybe we could blame cheney instead, he has his hand so far up bushbabys arse, its a wonder bush is still breathing.
Congress was mislead into believing that Iraq was an immediate threat to the security of the U.S.
9/11 was used by the administration as a just reason to invade Iraq because we all know that Saddam was sleeping with Bin Laden.
Saddam was getting ready to invade one of his neighbors again. And he wasnt worried about the U.S. or the U.N. retaliating in force.
Yep all the reasons the "Administration" gave were "Legitimate" and required the U.S. to destroy those evil heathens in Iraq.
Gimme a break!
Even Bush Sr. was smart enough to know that invading Iraq was a huge mistake..
Excerpt from "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time (2 March 1998):
While we hoped that popular revolt or coup would topple Saddam, neither the U.S. nor the countries of the region wished to see the breakup of the Iraqi state. We were concerned about the long-term balance of power at the head of the Gulf. Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome.