GW vindicated on taking down Saddam

[frankeaton]

an FBI agent said tonight on 60 minutes that Saddam had gotten rid of WMD's but planned on rebuilding them as soon as he could and never dreamed Bush would invade and take him down. Also the insurgency was planned.

Like I have been saying even though GW's approval rating only in 20% range, in 10 years he maybe found to be a great president. :)


http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3756675n

[osujane]

I believe you could very well be right. I would love to see that happen :)

[osujane]

Okay - here is how a liberal democrat sees the same interview you are discussing - this was posted on another board:

Watching the 60 Minutes interview with the FBI guy who interrogated
Jan 27, 2008 6:54 PM
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Saddam Hussein.....FBI guy, who gained Saddam's confidence says that there were NO, make that ZERO, make that NADA weapons of mass destruction, that all the weapons, such as they were, had been destroyed by the UN teams or were ordered destroyed by Saddam himself.

He kept up the ruse because he felt it kept Iran at a distance!

He didn't really think that Bushie would invade-thought he would do air strikes as his father did.

WHY DID WE INVADE THAT COUNTRY - CAN SOMEONE TELL ME. WHO WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION?

[frankeaton]

the agent also said the insurgency was PLANNED by Saddam

and don't you know when the folks in Iran see what prosperity in Iraq is doing because democracy they may over throw that jerk

[PokesFanatic]

the agent also said the insurgency was PLANNED by Saddam

And it also said that Saddam viewed Osama Bin Laden as a fanatic and that fanatics couldn't be trusted and that Bin Laden and his network would be bad for Iraq.

I apologize for not being the yellow ribbon patriot that some of us are, but I still question the necessity to so heavily weight the decision to go to war on so many unsubstantiated threats. There hasn't been much in the way of WMD discovered (currently 500 units of 30 year old arms--the ones used on the Kurds, buried in a lame attempt to dispose of them).

The pre-war assertion that Hussein had sought to build a nuclear weapon was later proved to be false and the current administration's emphasis on it is cause for serious question to this day.

I'm not saying there weren't signs of our need to go to war, but I feel the Bush administration jumped the gun and hurried the early stages that lead up to it. By the 'WMD definition', Iran is a much larger threat to us than was Iraq, and Pakistan is a known nuclear power that has left a paper trail of their purchase of Russian-made aircraft carrier busting armaments--their Western mountainous regions are currently the refuge of a large number of Al Qaeda and taleban and their country is host to many of the schools that train young Islamists in their fanatical bent.

I am still uncertain that the Iraq war wasn't an unnecessary diversion from the greater mission of stamping out terrorism on the globe. It's got us stretched out militarily and it's costing us lives and a significant increase in our national debt to be there.

Let there be no doubt that I support our troops (second cousin just came back from a tour of duty in Iraq) but I do so questioning the wisdom of putting their lives on the line to this end--a long, drawn out military occupation.

BTW, though I did not see the interview as clear vindication for the Bush Administration, I am not a liberal Democrat. I am a moderate Republican. I've tested spot-on in the cross hairs in nearly every one of the political compass tests I've taken.

[WyomingOSUAlum]

I think it all comes down to this: If you were the president, would you have been willing to take the chance that Saddam was full of crap? In the wake of 9/11/01, I wouldn't have been.

[Lewis the Pike]

Dubya invaded Iraq, because:

1) it vindicated his pops.

2) Saddam tried to assinate his pops

3) He had major contributors in the oil industry

4) He had major contributors in the "blow people up"....err "defense" industry

[mejake007]

the spin doctor is a fishin'!

[MemphisPoke]

the spin doctor is a fishin'!


Yes, and it must be some type of virus that goes around out there. I have a sister that spouts basically the same stuff and she is in southern California.

Verb, watch yourself. We don't want you catching this.

[Lewis the Pike]

I have a sister that spouts basically the same stuff and she is in southern California.



you mean Logic?

[WyomingOSUAlum]

you mean Logic?



No, we just don't believe in clairvoyance!