6 ms·
It happened to George W and Dick Cheney when they convinced themselves Saddam was building nukes but the Iraqis would welcome us as liberators. Same thing here.
by ProjectArcturis 5y ago
It happened to George W and Dick Cheney when they convinced themselves Saddam was building nukes but the Iraqis would welcome us as liberators. Same thing here.
- yonaguska 5y agoDo you believe they actually believed this? Was Bush really just a pawn to the military industrial complex? Maybe, I don't think this is true of Dick Cheney though.
- T-A 5y agoMy guess at the time was that with the international coalition keeping Saddam contained faltering, they decided it was better to finish him sooner rather than later, after he'd managed to rebuild his military.
- ProjectArcturis 5y agoI think they really did. Especially with how they went in with basically no plans whatsoever for nation-building post-invasion. I mean, I think they wanted to invade Iraq for a lot of reasons, but then convinced themselves that the Iraqis wanted it too.
- krapp 5y agoThey didn't convince themselves of anything of the sort. Those were just lies the Bush administration made up to convince the rest of the world.