Dubb-Ya and waterboarding

[DeepIron]

So you think 9-11 caused the Iraq war?

Yep. Or at least, added impetus to it on the American side... Hmm, we get attacked on 9/01 and we "declare war" on Iraq in what, 03/02? Five months?

Not 12 years of violated cease fire agreements, not Saddams own declarations that he had wmd and intended to use it, not correcting the wrong done to the Shiites and Kurds when we encouraged them to to revolt against Saddam in '91 and subsequently abandoned them?

We encouraged the Iraqis to revolt and then left them in the "dust" in '91. So, junior goes back to "finish the job" based on US Patriotic furor over 9/11, his "Axis of Evil" pronouncement, "terrorists are hiding in Iraq" lie, and unconfirmed intel regarding WMDs...

You can play the blame America game all you want but you cannot ignore the fact that the great majority of violent Iraqi deaths before AND during this war have been at the hands of other Iraqis.

I would certainly agree. Too bad ol' Dubb-Ya didn't have the forethought to see how Islamic factional violence would blossom once the main deterrrent, Saddam Hussein and the Baathist party were nullified...

BTW, I'm not arguing that Hussein should not have been tried in the World Court. I'm saying the Bush Administration, with it's brainless "Shock and Awe" tactics, have created a much more "lethal" situation than if we had patiently moved forward through diplomatic and economic channels.