dilloduck
Diamond Member
nakedemperor said:Wade, he's right, WMD weren't the ONLY reason, but like I said, it was 99.9% of why we went. Sure, humanitarian efforts are all well and good, but that's NOT why we're in Iraq right now. Like Jim said, there were myriad reasons (no preposition with myriad, by the bye) for going to war, but the driving force was far and away WMD and terrorism.
Of course rhetoric is going to include humanitarian references, but again, we didn't go to Iraq to free people, we didn't go to Afghanistan to free people, we went there to make the people of the U.S. safer, and IN DOING SO, peoples were liberated, but we didn't go there explicitly to free them.
WMD's were a big selling point because
1. EVERYONE thought they had them
2. REASONABLE people would quickly agree that Saddam would use them
Now WMDs are simply the libs favorite way of accusing Bush of being a liar