The hubris, the ability to lie and lie and lie again with a straight face, is absolutely incredible. Today Dick Cheney said that the Duelfer report, that showed Saddam didn't have a lick of WMD and wasn't on the path to getting any either, actually HELPS SUPPORT THE CASE FOR WAR. How?
Although the report says Saddam's weapons program had deteriorated since the 1991 Gulf War and did not pose a threat to the world in 2003, it also says Saddam's main goal was the removal of international sanctions. "As soon as the sanctions were lifted he had every intention of going back" to his weapons program, Cheney said.Well, ok, but wasn't that why we had the sanctions on him in the first place, because we feared without them he'd try to build WMD? I mean, that's a justification FOR sanctions, not a justification for throwing out the sanctions and declaring war. And the fact that Saddam wanted to throw out the sanctions says nothing. Every prisoner wants to be free, that's hardly cause for locking him up even longer, or killing him. The test here was whether the sanctions were working or not, and the Duelfer reports says they were. If the UN ever decided it wanted to lift the sanctions, we could have announced in advance that that would have meant war. But we didn't. The UN actually got the inspections going again, and THEN we declared war anyway. There is no scenario under which this administration would have not declared war on Saddam Hussein. It was their plan from the beginning, they repeatedly denied it was their plan, and now they're arguing that it actually WAS their plan all along.
These jackasses need to be voted out of office and thrown in jail.
