>>Certainly, Bush et al (surely representitive of that political faction) could only get the US to war by deceiving Congress and the people.
Clinton signed a Congressionally approved bill for regime change in Iraq in 1998. Yet he couldn't do a thing except missile strikes on Iraqi Intelligence HQ and some beefed up overflight attacks. There was no political will to go to war until the US mainland was attacked on 9/11.
>>never reliant upon the UN, never reliant upon the actions of Saddam, but was always the fruit of the Bush administration's desire to wage war in Iraq.
It's good we ignored the UN in general because that turned out to be a corrupt house (Oil-for-Food Scandal) driven by France's need for oil contracts and Russia's desire to arm and supply a buffer state.
It's bad we ignored Blix, however.>>Just a couple of hundred thousand, maybe even just 30,000, and that amount of innocent Iraqis surely doesn't matter at all.
Insurgents, sectarian vendettas, and all those criminals Saddam released from prison at the start of the invasion -- I guess they don't matter at all. And if they do ... what? Leave Saddam in place? He was attributed by Human Rights Watch for at least 300,000 corpses in unmarked graves. But I guess that doesn't matter at all.
Carnage is carnage. Selective use of carnage is propaganda. What should we have done? Maybe sent a team in and hoped they could kill Saddam and his psychotic sons? Yeah maybe ... I don't know .... just trying to balance the sides here.
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