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Originally Posted by DWB
I don't doubt that, and all of that stuff was found. But if he got rid of the WMDs, why did the US invade? It's not like they were not watching his every move. They didn't plan to go to war based on intel that was years old. At least I hope they didn't.  |
I dont doubt burying military equipment in the desert. There were plenty of pictures of that. Hiding/camouflaging equipment from attack is not a novel idea. In the middle of the desert, there is only one way to go... down. You have to remember what happened in the first war. He lost almost all of his hardware (tanks/planes etc) in the first 2 days.
I would guess they planned to go to war because it was a window of opportunity to plant a very large US base on the region. At least I would hope that was the reason.