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[Boreas]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Rummy and Wolfie were the real instigators, in my mind's eye I still see the WaPo photo of the two of them exiting the White House with big smiles on their faces, and the next day all hell broke loose.

Bush and Cheney came into office already planning to invade Iraq. Richard Clarke and others have testified to that. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were their enablers.

All should be in the dock.

John

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Bush and Cheney came into office already planning to invade Iraq. Richard Clarke and others have testified to that. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz were their enablers.

All should be in the dock.

John

According to what I read about it at the time Wolfie had been pushing for Sadam's removal even under Clinton.

[icenine]

They mislead Colin Powell, one of their own, so misleading Congress must not have caused them to lose sleep.

[donquixote99]

No. It's a constant. Been true as long as there's been a right and left. They see everybody getting stampeded by 'security fear,' and they fear for their very necks. It's instinctive.

[whell]

Just a little balance to all of the venom and hand-wringing in this thread:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...aq_117683.html

[Pio1980]

I think our involvement in the Korean conflict was to reestablish the status quo, and McArthur was canned for actively advocating an invasion and victory over the North, then the PRC.

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