Fingar's analogy to lawyers building their case to reach a predetermined conclusion is very very apt. I have often made this point myself. The Bush administration saw an opportunity after 9/11 to justify the military invasion needed to replace Sadaam. In the absence of an actual 9/11 link, they made the most of the WMD evidence they had, like trial lawyers, to persuade the world that he posed an enormous imminent threat. CIA, the FBI and others were pressured to make the case. It was a sin....
because the real threat Sadaam posed to the USA (the threat he posed to our long term access to oil out of the Gulf) was contained and could be dealt with further without the massive loss of life sustained so far. And furthermore, the Gulf region is now less secure than before, making the war both a moral and practical failure.
Not surprising that some suit should try to tell us that black is white, green is soup and that the real problem (which led to spectacular and continuing carnage) was a minor matter of allowing a lawyer not an intellectual to assess the evidence. Still boils the blood though, eh?
Here we have people wanting us to believe that 'intelligence flaws' explains why an outright propaganda of lies (which were never more than a decoy Bogus excuse for war to begin with), turned out to be false, when we very well know that even the WMD propaganda was a Red Herring and not the real reason for the war(just like the other baloney excuses-du-jour; UN non-compliance, Al Qaeda link, Democracy, cant-leave-now, etc).
It's pretty obvious that the Bush admin. was set on war from day one.. the intelligence was essentially irrelevant to them, they would have used any excuse available. Additionally if evidence was insufficient I have no doubt that they would have made some up just to justify the war. This debate gives them way too much credit!
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bundawartini 1 month ago
It was all about regime change for various reasons depending on who we are talking about. Scott Ritter was right and 70% of Americans were wrong.
Tsnore 1 year ago
Iraq is preferable Battlefield than Afghanistan.....flat urban terrain. just a thought
SuperCreamface 1 year ago
Fingar's analogy to lawyers building their case to reach a predetermined conclusion is very very apt. I have often made this point myself. The Bush administration saw an opportunity after 9/11 to justify the military invasion needed to replace Sadaam. In the absence of an actual 9/11 link, they made the most of the WMD evidence they had, like trial lawyers, to persuade the world that he posed an enormous imminent threat. CIA, the FBI and others were pressured to make the case. It was a sin....
etsneroj 3 years ago
because the real threat Sadaam posed to the USA (the threat he posed to our long term access to oil out of the Gulf) was contained and could be dealt with further without the massive loss of life sustained so far. And furthermore, the Gulf region is now less secure than before, making the war both a moral and practical failure.
etsneroj 3 years ago
Not surprising that some suit should try to tell us that black is white, green is soup and that the real problem (which led to spectacular and continuing carnage) was a minor matter of allowing a lawyer not an intellectual to assess the evidence. Still boils the blood though, eh?
sxmadrid 3 years ago
me too....
bebop54 3 years ago 4
This video made my day
Here we have people wanting us to believe that 'intelligence flaws' explains why an outright propaganda of lies (which were never more than a decoy Bogus excuse for war to begin with), turned out to be false, when we very well know that even the WMD propaganda was a Red Herring and not the real reason for the war(just like the other baloney excuses-du-jour; UN non-compliance, Al Qaeda link, Democracy, cant-leave-now, etc).
Rickdeckard2020 4 years ago 2
It's pretty obvious that the Bush admin. was set on war from day one.. the intelligence was essentially irrelevant to them, they would have used any excuse available. Additionally if evidence was insufficient I have no doubt that they would have made some up just to justify the war. This debate gives them way too much credit!
neotoy 4 years ago 6