It just amazes me about the amount of people who believed back in 2003 and still believe to this day, that the invasion of Iraq was about ‘Nation Building”. In reality, the whole fiasco was based on a lie, a lie sold to the American people by George Bush, who knew full well what he was doing at the time!
Remember when then Secretary of State, Colin Powell, went before Congress and implored them to back an invasion of Iraq? Then went before the United Nations on February 5th of 2003, and asked for the same thing, trying to get a “coalition” thing going ? I suggest for people to research his speech…as it was filled with nothing but one misstatement after another. Powell claimed that Saddam had purchased aluminum tubes to use for uranium enrichment centrifuges. Following the invasion, NO CENTRIFUGES WERE FOUND. Powell also claimed that photos showed proof of “Decontamination Vehicles”. But when the UN inspectors visited the site after the invasion, they located the vehicles and discovered they were just firefighting equipment!
Powell claimed that Saddam had illegal rockets and launchers hidden in palm trees in Western Iraq. None were ever found.
Powell also claimed, in order to spread fear (remember the invasion force used gas masks) that Saddam had 2,245 gallons of Anthrax. None was ever found, nor any traces of it was ever found.
Powell claimed that Saddam had an aggregate of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical and biological warfare agents, yet gave no basis for that claim to the American people or the United Nations Assembly. Absolutely, no biological or chemical weapons were ever found after the invasion. None, nada, zilch! And none were ever used against the U.S. invasion force because….THERE WASN’T ANY!
Powell also claimed to have an audio tape proving that Saddam was supporting Osama Bin Laden. The esteemed Secretary of State did have a tape alright, however, the translation showed that Osama wished for Saddam’s death. (which the U.S. granted his wish) Saddam and Osama bin Laden had a great dislike for each other. Osama was demanding that Saddam accept Al Quaida fighters into his country. Saddam refused, as it would have diminished his absolute authority in Iraq.
Anyway, continuing Powell’s debacle at the UN…he showed “spy photo’s” taken from high flying aircraft and a satellite that showed circles and arrows pointing to various fuzzy white blobs, identifying them as laboratories and storage areas for Saddam’s massive “Weapons of Mass destruction” program. Naturally, after the invasion, none of these “blobs” of white were ever found to be what Powell stated they were…not one!
In the end, the real proof that we were lied to about Iraq’s WMD’s is that none were ever found, which means that every single piece of paper that purported to prove that Iraq had them was by default, a fraud. There could be no evidence that supported the claim of that Iraq had them, because they didn’t and never had them. If one is taking the time to create fake documents, then the implication is that the faker is already aware that there are no genuine documents.
All of the talk about “Intelligence failure” is just another lie to cover up the invasion.There was no failure. Indeed, the army agents who claimed that Iraq was building uranium centrifuges received bonuses. When Hans Blix, the lead UN Inspector who was allowed into to Iraq by Saddam, couldn’t find ANY of the WMD’s, Labs, or storage places that King George very adamently said was there (but couldn’t tell him where to look) the Pentagon started a smear campaign against him (now, surely you remember that!) When the Director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Jose Bustani was trying to send in chemical weapons inspectors, John Bolton had him fired before he could do it..
Now, almost seven years later and after the unnecessary deaths of almost 5,000 US men and women and thousands more maimed and disfigured, we are trying to find our way out of this sticky situation.
The Iraqi Lie has driven this country to the edge of bankruptcy. The cost has been estimated to be $3 TRILLION dollars by the time is ends…for what? Iraq never attacked this country, nor did they have anything to do with 9/11.
