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your point is valid but your math is wrong.
2003-2008 was 798 deaths per year.
actually, double checking again, i come up with 898 per year.
798
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your point is valid but your math is wrong.
2003-2008 was 798 deaths per year.
actually, double checking again, i come up with 898 per year.
From the threat of Saddam Hussein
There was no risk and we knew that.
and the possible risk that our intelligence agency believed he had WMDs.
No, the intelligence community in fact doubted that he had WMD.
This claim was first asserted by Bush, and was parroted by others because it was a politically popular thing to say. In other words the Republicans and Democrats both supported taking the country into war because it would buy your vote. There were few people in those days courageous enough to say from the beginning that the entire thing was a sham. But there were some.
No, that would have been for the UN to decide. And as you'll remember, they did not make that decision.
Last, it is not like we believed he would not use Chemical weapons as he had used them before.
Actually, we were aware that he did not have those old weapons before. The argument was that he was manufacturing new chemical weaponry. Powell's infamous (now understood to be entirely manufactured itself) speech to the UN, remember?
So yes we needed to go in there and remove him from power as it was creating further instability in the region.
Yeah, because the place is so much more stable now. The truth is that Hussein's Iraq was a pillar maintaining stability in the region. After the US invasion, Al Qaeda and other terrorists were able to flow into Iraq, and all kinds of Hell started breaking loose.
From the threat of Saddam Hussein
There was no risk and we knew that.
and the possible risk that our intelligence agency believed he had WMDs.
No, the intelligence community in fact doubted that he had WMD.
This claim was first asserted by Bush, and was parroted by others because it was a politically popular thing to say. In other words the Republicans and Democrats both supported taking the country into war because it would buy your vote. There were few people in those days courageous enough to say from the beginning that the entire thing was a sham. But there were some.
No, that would have been for the UN to decide. And as you'll remember, they did not make that decision.
Last, it is not like we believed he would not use Chemical weapons as he had used them before.
Actually, we were aware that he did not have those old weapons before. The argument was that he was manufacturing new chemical weaponry. Powell's infamous (now understood to be entirely manufactured itself) speech to the UN, remember?
So yes we needed to go in there and remove him from power as it was creating further instability in the region.
Yeah, because the place is so much more stable now. The truth is that Hussein's Iraq was a pillar maintaining stability in the region. After the US invasion, Al Qaeda and other terrorists were able to flow into Iraq, and all kinds of Hell started breaking loose.
Not true. Saddam was harboring and funding terrorists.
SOME in the intelligence community doubted it. Others didn't. Guess who was right?
Bush did not assert it first.
Al Qaeda was in Iraq before the invasion.
Not true. Saddam was harboring and funding terrorists.
No, THAT is not true. It's been emphatically established the Hussein had no connection to Al Qaeda and that in fact bin Laden came to despise Hussein, because he refused to turn Iraq into a theocratic state and he refused to help bin Laden in his quest against the US.
SOME in the intelligence community doubted it. Others didn't. Guess who was right?
The consensus was that that there was no credible information that Iraq possessed WMD.
Even when Bush came to the Congress with the "intelligence" it originally emphasized this fact, and Bush altered the information presented.
Bush did not assert it first.
Bush was the one who first called for an invasion of Iraq, and based it on the false claim of WMD. He made is case on false intelligence.
Most of the American deaths in Iraq occurred AFTER obama and the changes he made in the Rules of Engagement that prohibited air support and reinforcements for pinned down units.