Do you not think that Saddam contributed to the invasion? Funny, because Saddam himself disagreed with you.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2427703020080124 He said after we captured him that he never thought we would invade, that his greater concern was invasion from Iran and that he was creating the impression that he still had WMD, that he was still powerful, to hold off Iran. No one forced the US to invade, but the events of 9/11 created such deep paranoia within the US government about the source of the attacks and possible future attacks that any obfuscation or obstruction by Saddam- already an enemy of the United States- was bound to be seen as a prelude to hostile action. Go back and look at the videos of people like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry voting to authorize the invasion. I'm not trying to point fingers here, I just want to illustrate how deeply 9/11 affected the worldview of the US government in those first couple of years after the attacks. Had he better understood the situation, he probably would have cooperated, don't you think? And the invasion would have been avoided. On Jan 28, 2008 6:22 PM, Dana wrote: > you are sort of misreading. Mind you I probably was not all that clear > -- comes of skimming email and interjecting comments while at work. > Scenario was meant to apply specifically to the invasion of Iraq. > There is no question that we are the cause of the invasion of Iraq. We > did it and nobody had a gun to our heads. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:252262 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
