Lies the left tells about Iraq

W. Thomas Smith:

Why does everyone continue this bit about our invasion of Iraq being "based on a lie?" That in and of itself is a lie.

In terms of weapons of mass destruction (which Saddam indeed previously possessed, used, and was always seeking to develop or acquire — and no one has the definitive answer as to what might have happened to any WMDs he might have possessed prior to the invasion), we and our coalition partners acted on the best intelligence we had available at the time — and intelligence collection and processing is an art, not a science.

In terms of direct links to 9/11, there were indeed links to terrorists who linked either directly or indirectly to global al Qaeda (though, to the anti-Bush crowd, what rises to the level of a legitimate link would have to be something along the lines of a Ba'athist intelligence officer making love to Osama bin Laden in the presence of George Tenet, Robert Mueller, and film crews from the big three television networks). But don't take my word for it. READ the 9/11 Commission Report, something the Left does NOT want America to do. Talk about cherry picking facts — those birds have been cherry picking passages from the 9/11 Commission Report, and then interpreting those facts for the masses, since it was first published.

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But this bit about lying us into war is an absolute lie, and educated, well-informed Americans should not tolerate it any more from reps like Dennis the Menace, who say:

The fact of the matter is we are all being weakened by continuing a war that's based on a lie. This war was based on lies.

That, my friends, is a manipulative lie.

And it's a lie that works for them and they feel comfortable with: After all, it's been repeated enough times as in any lie in a successful propaganda campaign.

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The war with Iraq had many reasons and one of them was Saddam's failure to account for his WMD as he was required to do by the cease fire agreement and numerous UN resolutions. After his forces were defeated we were also unable to account for much of his WMD. No sane person can suggest that our failure to account for them meant we "lied" about Saddam's earlier failure to account for them. But, we are talking about Dennis Kucinich here and much of the anti war left who cherry pick "facts" for the convenience of their political positions.