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Nobody denies that Saddam at one point of time had chemical weapons, actually he has used them, against the Kurds and the Iranians. Point is, he got rid of them years ahead of 2003. The reason told to the public why this war was necessary, said he still had them. And that was a lie.

It was also said by the Bush administration that Saddam and Al Quaeda cooperated. That was also a lie. Representatives of the regime and Al Quaeda have met and one point, only to find that they have nothing to agree over. Which is no surprise for anyone knowing the stuff: Al Quaeda hates despots and corrupted pseudo-Muslims like the Saddam regime.

It also was implied that Saddam had his hands in 9/11. That is a lie.

Then there was this hilarious thing that became known as the "London missile memo", a diploma paper by student from ten years ago that was just copied and sold as latest government intel, saying that Saddam's MRBM now could reach European cities in less than 30 minutes. Maybe the best joke of them all.

Only the allegation that Saddam still has chemical weapons, was an explanation for the war given ahead of the war. When the weapons were not found, the Al Quaeda issue was published, and the 9/11 link became more focused on. The original lie had not worked, now one needed another one to justify the war.

Explanations given before a war, are reasons that may be right or wrong. Explanations given AFTER a war, are always just lame excuses.

And a final reminder on the fact that the Wolfowiotz paper planned and demanded the Iraq war of 2003 already one decade earlier. During the Clinton years, the paper disappeared in a drawer. When Bush junior entered office, the war already was decided from all beginning on when he took out that paper again.

My all time favourite which ruined Colin Powell's respectability forever: the moment he pathetically held up that unsecured vial of poweder sugar at the UN, lecturing over how dangerous a piece of Anthrax it was. What a disgrface for a man who before enjoyed quite some respect in the world and maybe was the only person respected in the whole administration. He later indicated in an interview, just some years ago, that he deeply regret that he accepted to stage this act, if I remember correctly.

If you have the opportunity, watch that 2 hopur docu from 2006 or 2007, "No end in sight", which in Germany ran under the nice title "War of the amateurs". It was on TV and at the movies, and initially was freely available on internet, but now is payware DVD only. But you can check youtube on whether or not I may be wrong. That film spoke vomes about the early inention of Bush, and the diletantism shown by the adminstration. It went so far as too actively hinder better preparation. Idiots, totally unscrupellous idiots fed from the pockets of backstage cliques and business lobbies.

The failure over realistic Afghanistan policies and Kathrina showed that their incompetence was no single case, but a basic feature of this government crew.