There are many that are really good hindsight quarterbacks. There are many that are really good armchair Generals. There are many that are really good second-guessers AFTER the fact.
Why did we go to war? Prior to the infamous day of 91101, the United States and her interests were being attacked on a regular basis by terrorists…enemy combatants. Most everybody poo-pooed the terrorists thinkiing that just maybe they would just quit and saying perhaps, “Hell. It is all going on over yonder.”
Well, they came over here to the land of The Paper Tiger. The Taliban and Al Quaida quickly learned that The Paper Tiger had a bunch of po’d citizens and a herd of neat and expensive toys to deliver and that we did.
Saddam Hussein had years to conform to the conditions of the cease-fire and did not. What was he hiding?
The United Nations was and is useless…a TRUE Paper Tiger…no…a Paper Gnat.
Many stated that the United States and the Western Nations could not afford for Iraq to have WMDs that he had used in the past nor could we allow Iraq to develop any. It was nearly unanimous.
I will expound more on this but first, take a look at the video.
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