We went to war twice for WHAT?!
posted by
Wally
8:11 AM
Iraq invaded Kuwait, and drew us into the first Gulf War, because of an insult.
Also, Saddam thought that Bin Laden was a threat to him and his regime.
And the WMD's were destroyed in the '90's.
The man who knew Saddam better than any other American is FBI agent George Piro. Over the course of months spent with Saddan while he was in prison, Piro interrogated him, got to know him, and in a strange way befriended him in order to gain his trust and get him to open up. In so doing, he was able to find out the answers about some troubling questions about such things as WMD's, connections with Al Qaeda, etc.
He talked with "60 Minutes" about what he learned. Much of what he had to say is disturbing, to say the least. To me, it's infuriating - not at Saddam - he's just a run of the mill megaolomaniacal sadistic evil dictator. That's what you expect from someone like that. What infuriates me is how the Bush administration reacted, and what they've done to our nation in the process.
Below are some key points. You can read the full story at the link above, or watch the video by clicking on the image below.
What caused the first Gulf War? What caused Saddam to invade Kuwait? What was the reason for spending 7 Billions dollars and mobilizing 500,000 troops and marching across Kuwait to push Saddam back behind his own borders? What started the war that cost the region $676 Billion in 1990-91? It was all triggered by a personal insult.
From the 60 Minutes interview:"What really triggered it for him, according to Saddam, was he had sent his foreign minister to Kuwait to meet with the Emir Al Sabah, the former leader of Kuwait, to try to resolve some of these issues. And the Emir told the foreign minister of Iraq that he would not stop doing what he was doing until he turned every Iraqi woman into a $10 prostitute. And that really sealed it for him, to invade Kuwait. He wanted to punish, he told me, Emir Al Sabah, for saying that," Piro explains. He could have responded with a "so's your mother" joke, but no, he had to start a fucking war. What an asshole.
What about those WMD's that Dubya, and Unca Dick, and Colin Powell kept trying to scare the shit out of us with in order to drag us into the second Gulf War?"He told me that most of the WMD had been destroyed by the U.N. inspectors in the '90s. And those that hadn't been destroyed by the inspectors were unilaterally destroyed by Iraq," Piro says. Okay, so the WMD's were, as anyone paying attention suspected, as the inspectors tried to tell us, a non-issue, trumped up as an excuse to invade. But there were the ties to bin Laden, right? Right?"He considered him to be a fanatic. And as such was very wary of him. He told me, 'You can't really trust fanatics,'" Piro says.
Piro says Saddam thought that Bin Laden was a threat to him and his regime. So... tell me again... why did we just blow 4 years, 4,000 American lives, half a Trillion dollars, 100's of 1,000's of Iraqi civilian's lives, and the reputation of America? What the fuck are we doing over there?
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