Bush's Place in History.

[DuncanONeil]

Again I respectfully submit you are wrong, way wrong. Al Quaida was NOT in Iraq, Never in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Hussein's Iraq was very secular and Al Quaida CLAIMS to be a religious organization. Al Quaida became part of Iraq only because we invaded. THESE are the facts.

Bush and Cheney were planning to invade Iraq before 9/11. Our national tragedy was USED by the Bush administration to justify their folly of a War.

Your facts are in error. Members of the Al Quaida hierarchy met with Saddam in Iraq. So there was some complicity there. I note that you completely dismiss the fact that Al Quaida was not the proximate cause of our entry into Iraq, but actions taken by the UN. Seems to me that your desire to denigrate the former President has blinded you to the actual facts of the campaign in Iraq in favor of the "common knowledge" version.

Prior to 9/11 there was no direct desire to invade Iraq. At that time we were still engaged in attempting to secure Saddam's co-operation with the terms of the cease fire of the 1991 conflict. Something he consistently refused to do.

One could make a case that your anger at losing the elections in 2000 and 2004 has colored your evaluation of the world scene since than.