You underestimate me, once again. :yelwink2: You know I can prove it.
Scott Ritter, the chief US WMD inspector stated in 2002, a year before the invasion:
What in the world are you talking about?
I know of no instance of that happening after the war. Even if it were true, then we bomb his facilities and tell him to stop that chit! Shock and Awe works to influence countries to behave--ask Yugoslavia. It was utterly foolish to invade and occupy Iraq. They have nothing we need and it has exposed a superpower weakness to our enemies. This perceived weakness has now emboldened Russia into trying to revive The Cold War.
Condi Rice says Russia should drop Cold War mentality
Everyones intelligence did
NOT say the same thing, Sourdough. Where do you get these ideas?
Have you read the
Senate Report on Pre-War Intelligence on Iraq?
Their first conclusion points to widespread flaws in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, and attributes those flaws to
failure by analysts in the intelligence community:
Most of the major key judgments in the Intelligence Community’s October 2002 NIE, Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, either
overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence reporting. A series of failures, particularly in analytic trade craft, led to the
mischaracterization of the intelligence.
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