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Originally Posted by WTF

Bad Example?

So do you think we had to go to war with Iraq to keep yellowcake from arriving in Iran?

Iraq who had been at war with Iran?

We go to war with Iraq, install a Iran friendly government there...we sure as fuck better take the remnants of Saddam's nuclear program to Canada!

IMHO the example you used is illogical. It actually shows that Bush knew he had fucked up installing who he had. He should have left the Ba'athist Iraqi government in charge minus Saddam.*



* Not a endorsement of the Iraq war.

Saddam already had everything he needed to reconstitute his nuclear program (including the Yellow Cake -- and that is why Joe Wilson's exposé was irrelevant and ignored by the Bush administration -- Saddam had no need to "acquire" Yellow Cake!): 1) Saddam had trained, competent technicians who could reconstitute his stockpile of WMDs. 2) He had the necessary materiel on hand to proceed with such a reconstitution. 3) He had the money to refinance such a reconstitution. 4) He repeatedly stalled and deceived the inspectors. 5) There's no doubt that Saddam intended to reconstitute his WMD program as soon as he could.