Iraq v. WW II

[jbor]

>> Just as any reasonable analysis of Saddam's reign shows that his purges and
>> genocidal campaigns were the biggest crimes of all in Iraq.
> 

on 5/6/03 7:29 AM, Eulenspiegel7646 at aol.com at Eulenspiegel7646 at aol.com
wrote:
> 
> ...With the war crimes of the "Coalition of the Willing" coming in to a close
> second when the body count is complete.

Not even in the same ballpark.

The other odd thing is how it's being claimed that Bush and Blair and their
minions lied and fabricated evidence relating to Saddam's WMD, that it was
all a huge conspiracy, and that even if they do find evidence of WMD now how
could we trust it, it'll just have been planted by the CIA etc.

If this is the case, if it was a set-up from the start, then you'd imagine
they would have planted and "found" the evidence straight away, wouldn't
they? Rather than coming up empty-handed and appearing foolish or deceitful?

Seems to me they believed, perhaps wrongly but certainly understandably on
past experience, that Saddam was lying about his arsenal and his intentions.

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