Not a Republican, but yes Bush lied to get us into Iraq. AND Hillary supported that (as she has every other war in her lifetime). AND your party is the war party, and has been since at least the 1990s. AND you're still clinging to election denial conspiracy theories 20+ years later.
Lots of things can be true simultaneously. You'll realize that when you grow up.
Have to respectfully disagree with you on that one. There was a movie about this, a female interrogator broke Saddam down. Believe it or not, a good movie.
But anyways........ After Desert Shield and then Storm, Saddam wasn't really afraid of the US. At all. He knew that we didn't want anything they had.
But he was deathly afraid of Iran. Remember, they had just got done fighting a very bloody war only a few years earlier. And Iraq won only because the US helped him.
So, after Desert Storm, Saddam had no Military to speak of. What little they had was weak. So, he, almost on his own, came up with the idea of WMD's. That he had them. So he starts talking like he has them and that he's willing to use them. Which nobody doubted because he was an extremely ruthless Dictator. A Ba'athist. Arab socialist.
And all socialists are scum, as we know.
He was very convincing. Iran thought he had Nukes. The Israelis thought he had Nukes, so did MI6 and the French and the Germans and the 2nd best Intelligence Service in the world, Pakistan's ISI.
And so did we. EVERYBODY thought Saddam had Nukes.
Which is why we invaded him.
Bush, was a little paranoid after 9/11. I don't blame him. We had just experienced the most devastating attack on our homeland in 188 years. Worse than Pearl Harbor.
And Saddam kept talking shit like he had Nukes and was willing to use them. Look what he did to the Kurds!!!
Did Bush get duped? Yep. But so did everybody else. The Brits, the French Surete, Japan, Germany, the ISI, the Russians, Mossad -- EVERYBODY.
Bush didn't lie. That is Urban Legend propagated by scumbag dimocrap FILTH.
But he did get snookered. And Saddam got hanged.