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j79zlr said:
damn perris, sooner or later you would understand that everyone was telling him he need to act now.
no, they weren't...most of his aids were telling him NOT to go to war...the only aid that wanted war along with him was rhumsfeld, and every one of his other advisor's warned him against the action...clark, Powell, rice...everyone
MI6, CIA, German intelligence, Czech Intelligence, even the French, all said he had WMD's. Russian intelligence said that he was planning on attacking the US.
jeeze, you keep coming up with what ever you want to make a case that not only doesn't exist, but didn't exist
once again...Bush's own advisor's have already told us that they informed Bush that he was exaggerating and misinterpreting his case for the war when he spoke to us.
whatever you want to make believe existed as proof for his unprovoked war will hopefully be put to and end with what the Bush commissioned hearing about 9/11 (headed by a republican and as kind to this republican president as possible I might add) says to the point you so often and failingly try to make.
here's a cut and paste;
After reviewing about 400 analytical documents written by the intelligence agencies from 1991, after the first gulf war, to 2003, when the Hussein rule was toppled, the committee unanimously concluded that "the body of assessments showed that Iraqi military capabilities had steadily degraded following defeat in the first gulf war in 1991. Analysts also believed those capabilities would continue to erode as long as economic sanctions remained in place."
The intelligence agencies, though, were much less certain about Mr. Hussein's intentions (as they correctly told bush before the war, which this report documents for you j79) then Bush told us...instead he told us he had definite proof)
the committee said.
"Clearly, the issue of Saddam's intentions to use force against his neighbors and U.S. and coalition forces was a high-interest matter( which the president kept insisting be high interestb]" the report said, "and, unfortunately, the main area where the intelligence community was least confident in its analysis."[/b]
and their analysis of this ridiculous action by this president;
"Tragically, the intelligence failure set forth in this report will affect our national security for generations to come," Mr. Rockefeller said. "Our credibility is diminished. Our standing in the world has never been lower. We have fostered a deep hatred of Americans in the Muslim world, and that will grow. As a direct consequence, our nation is more vulnerable today than ever before."
Again, I've said this approximately 1000 times, you chastize him for not doing anything about 9/11 [which I don't believe] prior to its occurance via the ambiguous terror threat notice he received, yet by going ahead and doing a preemptive strike he is evil.
how on earth you compare the starting of war unprovoked to defending this nation against a threat that is made absolutely clear would be happening within months, as precise as telling us where and and how is just beyond reason
if you'd like to see the protocol set by former presidents with similar information, simply go to page 128 of the report, where you'll see a president before Bush that received an almost identical warning.
that man defended this country
this president took a vacation...no need to speculate on what should have been done, the presidence was there to follow
