I for one believe that Saddam had enough hatred for America (he was quite open about it by the way)
Actually, Saddam was a friend to the USA so long as we kept arming him and financing him. We were the last people on earth he hated... in fact, he loved us. Its a wonder he didn't send you a birthday card.
He also had years and years to hide away, sell, or give to his allies the weapons we knew he had because we GAVE them to him!
If his weapons came from us, then we knew very well all along that he never had nukes. Yet we were lied into believing that he did.
He thumbed his nose for YEARS at the inspections.
Clinton deliberately withdrew US weapons inspectors from Iraq in December 1998. When the weapons inspections resumed, CIA intelligence agents were smuggled in as part of the "inspection" teams in order to locate targets for Operation Desert Fox, the US bombing campaign against Iraq.
In late 2001 Jose Bustani, chief of the Organization to Prevent Chemical Weapons, pushed hard to get Iraq on the Chemical Weapons Convention. As a member of the Convention, Iraq would have voluntarily submitted to weapons inspections or be forced to withdraw from the organization.
In March 2002, Bustani was forcibly removed from his office by George Bush's administration in order to prevent him from inviting Iraq into the CWC. Doing so would have removed Bush's excuse for war since Iraq was willing to accept the CWC's terms and permit weapons inspections.
In late 2002, UN weapons inspectors were, in fact, allowed into Iraq and given free reign to examine Iraqi weapons systems. Although a few minor infractions were found, nothing remotely connected to stockpiles of WMD's existed and the inspectors strongly discouraged any act of war based on that premise. In fact, Saddam Hussein permitted
MORE THAN 750 inspections on Iraqi soil.
The US invaded anyway.
Here is the "PROVE IT! PROVE IT!" documentation that you always demand, but you should be embarrassed to read it. You should have done your own homework on this war six years ago, and you should not accept anything I say now or any information that I post. You have rejected every other truth that I have offered... I suggest you reject this one, too, and go do your own homework on the topic.
