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Originally Posted by Mavdog
too early to say the war is/was a failure. yet to claim the removal of a "police state...was the objective of the operation" is revisionist history at its best. the rationale was wmd, and the purported ties of hussein to terrorism, both of which have been shown to be hollow.
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Mavdog, you are not a very good liar.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/c...?story_id=2679
21 Rationales for War
Want a reason for war with Iraq? Here are 21. A study by Devon Largio, a recent graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, reveals that between September 2001 and October 2002 10 key players in the debate over Iraq presented at least 21 rationales for going to war. Largio examines the public statements of President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, Sens. Joseph Lieberman and John McCain, Richard Perle (then chairman of the Defense Policy Review Board), Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
The table below illustrates who deployed each rationale.
