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Originally Posted by Shek
Here's Duelfer's testimony.
I don't think he would be a direct threat to the US today if he remained in power, but he would be a threat to regional stability, and with a weak regime and growing Salafist influence, I wouldn't be happy with that potential, either.
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The war on terror will not be won on the defensive," the president told a graduating class of cadets. "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act."
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Iraq did not meet that bar. Saddam was never going to be a threat to us. the 20 year exportation out of Saudi Arabia of radical Islamic theology has been and will continue to be a greater threat and was responsible for 911
Thus the pretense for the invasion was false. it was a mistake. It just becomes a question of whether you believe it was an honest mistake and the Bush administration was not trying to paint a picture of a threat greater than the evidence merited or whether our intelligence services failed and gave the administration extremely flawed intel.
The fact VP Cheney was still repeating what he knew was bad intel( The Atta Prague meeting) on Meet the Press certainly leaves open the question of whether they may of repeated intel they received but knew to be false in the run up in 2002-2003.
As to how the operation unfolded that's the fog of war and was part of the risk.
once again though Iraq diverts a response to 911 even on forums