Ted Rall for January 26, 2015
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Cinematic heroes of the terror wars American Sniper: No declaration of war? No WMDs? No threat? No problem? (Man: You know what their problem is? No respect for human life!) American Torturer: He came for the pain. He stayed for America. (Man 2: He wouldn't even have enemies to protect ourselves from if not for heroes like me!) American Droner: Don't push his button. (Man 3: Sure, I'm poisoning myself with non dairy creamer- but freedom aint free!)
“Iraq violated their Cease Fire Agreement, was firing on our planes in the no-fly zone, and was bribing the UN with Oil For Food money. He also executed 600,000 of his own civilians. Screw him.”
Talk about moving the goal posts. It was stated earlier here that the 2003 invasion against Iraq was in retaliation for 9/11.
I replied, factually, that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
Then you bring up these other issues. However, these other issues were not cited by Bush-Cheney in 2003 as casus belli – so they are a distraction. The justification given for the invasion was the imminent danger posed to the US by Iraqi WMDs – which didn’t exist, and which Bush had insufficient reason to believe existed, and in the event that they HAD existed, could not have been shot into the US by Iraq since Iraq didn’t have ICBMs.
PS I have to laugh about the “no fly zone.” What right did the US have to impose a “no fly zone” in Iraq? None. Besides, the Iraqis were tired of being repeatedly bombed by Clinton throughout the 1990s.