When Bush declared war on Iraq because they had weapons of mass destruction (of course they didn't)
Sorry, you obviously have been following CNN, George Soros, and The Nation.
Aside from the fact that Sadam Hussein had two years to move WMD's to Syria where we have seen them used, there were WMD's found in Iraq. In addition, we moved over 500 tonnes of yellowcake from Iraq to safe storage in Canada.
Well Iraq probably have biological and chemical weapons as the CIA reported. Still he had no way to deliever it to US soil.
He had no nuclear weapons but the same report said he was trying to get them
Still at that point in time that Bush declared war they did have weapons that could attack US soil. I do not believe he said that he would use them to attack the US in a first strike capacity.
Bush made this an issues that they have nuclear weapons and wanted nuclear weapons for some motive and convienced enought people that the US and their allies had to remove him as he was a threat.
Nuclear weapons in my opinion are weapons of mass destruction.
Stock piles of chemicals they had can only be used in Iraq which did not pose a threat to US soil is not weapons of mass destruction
Still you can make the argument and he certainly did
So with no nuclear weapons and some chemical weapons he played the fear card and pushed the nuclear weapon argument
Did he believe that his dad was mistaken when daddy didn't finish the job and pulled out.
Or did he want to be a war president and get re elected. He wanted to establish an American presence in the Middle east.
Still he created fear and used it to push a war. There was no threat that a few well placed bombs could not have solved.
In all the statements I read from Bush on Iraq, I don't see where Bush singled out Nuclear over WMDs in general. After all, the cease fire agreement involved all WMDs, not just nuclear.
Look at what happened before Bush was even in office.
At the Principals meeting, [National Security Advisor] Sandy Berger asked, "What if we do not hit it and then, after an attack, nerve gas is released in the New York City subway? What will we say then?"
Reno eventually declined to vote, "but the rest recommended unanimously that al-Shifa be destroyed." In August 1998, the United States launched Operation Infinite Reach, a series of cruise missile attacks against the Sudanese facility as well as several al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.
The fact that al-Qaeda was struck was important. Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants were actually the primary targets of Infinite Reach, largely as retaliation for al-Qaeda's involvement in terrorist bombings against U.S. embassies in Africa. But in justifying the operation, Clinton administration officials argued that they were acting against a triple threat, a synergy between Sudan's manufacture of chemical weapons, the Iraqis, and al-Qaeda terrorists.
"We see evidence that we think is quite clear on contacts between Sudan and Iraq," undersecretary of state Thomas Pickering said. "In fact, El Shifa [sic] officials, early in the company's history, we believe were in touch with Iraqi individuals associated with Iraq's VX [nerve gas] program." UN ambassador Bill Richardson told CNN's Wolf Blitzer shortly after the strikes:
We were convinced, and had evidence supporting this belief, that Iraq was intending to make working relations with known terrorist groups. If Iraq had created such a connection and passed onto al-Qaeda even the smallest of VX gas, with as large as the terrorist network as al-Qaeda had, they could have lunched a terrifying attack virtually anywhere in the world, whether it was our allies or the US directly.
And the danger of this is simply too great to ignore. After the fall of Iraq, the BBC went to report on areas hit by nerve gas from Saddam's military. They sill found clouds of still lethal nerve gas, with freshly killed rats and other animals caught in the invisible gas. Nerve agents are designed to be heavier than air, and last for ages.
25 years after Saddam fired chemical weapons, the gasses are still killing things in the impact zone.
Can you imagine if a chemical agent had been released into a subway? Mustard gas notoriously doesn't have any immediate effects. An area could be contaminated for hours, possibly even a day, giving people a potentially lethal douse, before the first victims started making their way to hospitals.
The danger was exceptional.
Now the mindless left-wing would claim that there was no working connection with al-Qaeda... and in retrospect, we know this is true. However, that does not change the fact they were pursuing such a connection, and the fact we didn't know how much or little connection there was at the time. The only difference between Clinton and Bush, was that Bush was wise enough to know a few missile strikes would not fix anything.
