dude....you have changed your story....in this thread, how do you honestly think no one can not see it?
I have not changed "my story" in the least.
you have maintained that bush lied solely for the words "no doubt" ...you said no dems said that
I have said that Team Bush lied when they said that "THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT SADDAM HAS STOCKPILES OF WMD's" and no dems ever DID say that ....
no. you didn't
you then CHANGED YOUR STORY to include the AQ connection....that was not the argument you stood by....you changed it after being shown all the dems who said THE SAME THING bush did....
if you had been around for a while young fella, you would know that the long arc of my complaint with the Bush administration has ALWAYS been that they lied about the certainty of WMD stockpiles and they lied about the existence of a Saddam-Al Qaeda connection and used the conflation of those two lies to press their case that we needed to invade IMMEDIATELY. I have been saying that on here, on FP.com before that, and on P.com before THAT. And there IS a difference between saying that there is no doubt that Saddam has reinvigorated his weapons programs and saying that there is no doubt that he possesses stockpiles of WMD's right now. It was the "right now" immediacy of existing piles of chemical and biological weapons sitting around waiting to be given to AQ operatives any minute that drove the case for war. Bush had, in my opinion, scored a major diplomatic success by forcing Saddam to allow UN weapons inspectors back INTO Iraq... if he had let them do their job, in a matter of months, they would have told him what the world now knows to be true: that Saddam did NOT have stockpiles of WMD's and there WAS no reason to invade, conquer, and occupy the sovereign state of Iraq.
But Bush did not want to wait... Bush did not care whether Saddam had stockpiles of WMD's or not... he wanted desperately to invade Iraq and start the PNAC vision into motion.... and he had to tell the American people two lies in order to do so... and he always assumed that, when the Iraqi people were welcoming us as liberators, when the statues of him were being erected in every town square throughout Iraq, when the rose petals were being strewn in front of our tanks, and when the Jeffersonian democracy that he planted by the banks of the Euphrates bloomed and spread throughout the middle east, that America would be so proud of their visionary president who had changed the world and brought democracy to the middle east and vanquished islamic extremism forever that they would forgive him a few little lies told in order to make it all happen. He was wrong.
That has ALWAYS been my "story", yurt. I haven't "changed" a word of it.
