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Originally posted by piker
Because every credible intelligence source in the world said he had WMD before we took our 6 month break to talk to the UN.... so he didnt attack anyone that doesnt stop him working with terrorist... inspectors themselves have said he could be hiding them.. that the job was just too hard....
but what about the stuff that we didnt know..is there anything that may have been kept out of the media reports for our own good? i dont know.. i wouldnt rule it out
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The 6 month break was so that we didn't have all our troops there in the winter to have a spring attack, exactly as it happened. That entire 6 moths we were building troops up in the area and playing diplomacy.
The inspectors themselves only asked for more time to discern if he was hiding anything, which we did not give them. When we invaded Iraq with the "knowledge" of where the weapons were, and could not find them, we asked for more time. Irony eh? That didn't pan out very well.
What would have been left out of the reports? The country has fallen and all informants that needed protection have gotten it and been taken to america or elsewhere where they could be protected. I guess its possible there is something we don't know, but I wouldn't rely on that to justify a war where thousands are dead and close to 8000 american casualties(injured, maimed, killed) and untold thousands of innocent iraqis.