President Obama said this the other day at Camp Lejeune:
"I want to be very clear," Obama told the military audience. "We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Hussein's regime -- and you got the job done."
Well, no. That was not the reason why troops were sent to Iraq.
The rationale was this one:
"Prior to the war, the governments of the U.S., U.K, and Spain claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a serious and imminent threat to their security and that of their coalition allies."
So let's be very precise about describing what happened back in 2003.
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Again, this is what was said:
"Iraq was an "imminent" threat, that's it. White House spokesman Scott McClellan lashed out at critics afterwards, saying "Some in the media have chosen to use the word 'imminent'. Those were not words we used." But a closer look at the record shows that McClellan himself and others did use the phrase "imminent threat" – while also using the synonymous phrases "mortal threat," "urgent threat," "immediate threat", "serious and mounting threat", "unique threat," and claiming that Iraq was actively seeking to "strike the United States with weapons of mass destruction" – all just months after Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted that Iraq was "contained" and "threatens not the United States."
Bacuse, Mr. President if Richard Perle agrees with you...:
"Addressing members of the Marine Corps, President Obama said:
"We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Hussein's regime – and you got the job done. We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government – and you got the job done."
But more than this, he should say what now needs to be said: that we look forward to leaving Iraq when we can honestly say it is well on the path to becoming the Arab world's most important functioning democracy."
Link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
If he praises you and agrees with you, that means you are wrong, Sir.