On my way home from lunch, my radio paused on 5 minutes of Limbaugh - which was all I could take. He was reading quotes from all major democratic leaders from 1998 - 2002 about how Saddam absolutely MUST be disarmed and how he was a threat to deploy WMDs. He read a multitude of quotes from Ted Kennedy, Pelosi, Gore, and others.
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Not that I should be believing anything Rush says as he could obviously have made the quotes up. But how can we combat that? Is that all moot, too, based on the Bush build-up to the war? From here, it seems that Democrats firmly believed that Hussein was a significant threat long before any talk of Wilson and uranium.
I haven't followed the Iraq War 1/10 as close as many Kossacks, probably because it's really starting to wear on me. But it seems that there would have been no question if Clinton had invaded Iraq in 1999, for example. Maybe the point is that Clinton would have simply accomplished his goals without force? I don't know. I'm partially playing devil's advocate and partly because well, I don't know.
When the US first started bombing Iraq in March 2003, I was on Spring Break in Puerto Vallarta. That day, I thought to myself that this was probably the right thing to do. I had believed he was a threat since the invasion of Kuwait when I was just a 5th grader. It seems like everyone did.
Maybe the real issue here is simply whether or not the Bush administration "massaged" intel to gain support for taking Saddam out. If the new bi-partisan committee to look at pre-war intelligence gets anywhere with that before Bush leaves office, I'll be surprised. That said, I'm certainly enjoying Harry Reid's hard work in all of this. My only hope is that it pays off in a timely manner.