As stated by MATTinSF in a previous post
"thats all great....but the answer is really much simpler than that. We invaded Iraq to settle a Bush family vendetta. It had nothing to do with WMDs, nothing to do with terrorists, nothing to do with Al Qaeda or 9/11 and everything to do with settling an old score with Saddam....plus the Al Sauds probably wanted us to as well.
FACT #1
Iraq had no WMDs when we invaded.
FACT #2
Iraq had no links to Al Qaeda, in fact they were hostile to eachother.
FACT #3
Despite 2 years of trying to cook up ghost WMDs and ghost conspiracies the administration has not managed to find a single sliver of justification for an invasion on those grounds.
FACT #4
We are now fighting a war to "spread freedom and democracy"...it started off as a war of self defense and has now morphed into an idealogical crusade. "
MattinSF;
I have sat here and read through all 7 pages of of this thread. I don't even know where to begin. I have spent the last 20 years of my life participating in the defense of this country, flying jets off of aircraft carriers and working on Joint Staffs. I was on the first Aircraft Carrier into the GULF before the first Gulf War and we were flying missions over the heads of Iraqis poised on the Saudi border...we stopped them in thier tracks...we made them blink. How we did it few will ever know. I was on an aircraft carrier flying support missions off the coast of Somalia as they were dragging our service men that were shot down through the streets as we were attempting to protect food shipments that were being hijacked by Somali warlords, President Clinton tied our hands in ways the public will never know about. Most recently I was at a base in Saudi Arabia before the last war started working on the Air War Plan. I have one thing to tell you and your obviously limited exposure to the real truth. YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING IN REGARDS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WAS IN IRAQ prior to the invasion. WE DON"T OWE YOU A PUBLIC EXPLANATION OF WHAT WE KNOW. If you want to know that info, grow some balls, join the military, attempt to qualify for a TS clearance and work your ass off for years before you ever get to the place were you are cleared to know the info.
I am currently the officer in charge of the US NAVY's west coast command center. Keep reading your liberal media and draw your own conclusions but don't ever attempt to state anything as fact that you know nothing about.
Mark
"thats all great....but the answer is really much simpler than that. We invaded Iraq to settle a Bush family vendetta. It had nothing to do with WMDs, nothing to do with terrorists, nothing to do with Al Qaeda or 9/11 and everything to do with settling an old score with Saddam....plus the Al Sauds probably wanted us to as well.
FACT #1
Iraq had no WMDs when we invaded.
FACT #2
Iraq had no links to Al Qaeda, in fact they were hostile to eachother.
FACT #3
Despite 2 years of trying to cook up ghost WMDs and ghost conspiracies the administration has not managed to find a single sliver of justification for an invasion on those grounds.
FACT #4
We are now fighting a war to "spread freedom and democracy"...it started off as a war of self defense and has now morphed into an idealogical crusade. "
MattinSF;
I have sat here and read through all 7 pages of of this thread. I don't even know where to begin. I have spent the last 20 years of my life participating in the defense of this country, flying jets off of aircraft carriers and working on Joint Staffs. I was on the first Aircraft Carrier into the GULF before the first Gulf War and we were flying missions over the heads of Iraqis poised on the Saudi border...we stopped them in thier tracks...we made them blink. How we did it few will ever know. I was on an aircraft carrier flying support missions off the coast of Somalia as they were dragging our service men that were shot down through the streets as we were attempting to protect food shipments that were being hijacked by Somali warlords, President Clinton tied our hands in ways the public will never know about. Most recently I was at a base in Saudi Arabia before the last war started working on the Air War Plan. I have one thing to tell you and your obviously limited exposure to the real truth. YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING IN REGARDS TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WAS IN IRAQ prior to the invasion. WE DON"T OWE YOU A PUBLIC EXPLANATION OF WHAT WE KNOW. If you want to know that info, grow some balls, join the military, attempt to qualify for a TS clearance and work your ass off for years before you ever get to the place were you are cleared to know the info.
I am currently the officer in charge of the US NAVY's west coast command center. Keep reading your liberal media and draw your own conclusions but don't ever attempt to state anything as fact that you know nothing about.
Mark