Submitted by -A Former Soldier

How do these men sleep at night? The same can be said of the Democrats with selective memory in regards to events and statements made by them leading up to our involvement in Iraq.
The political agenda of the Democrats cloud their memory.

It takes two to tango . How forgetful the Liberal Democrats are in regards to their part in this dance leading up to war.

What sickens me the most is the Democrats holier than thou mud slinging tactics all for political gain. They trump up the information, place people in positions to fan the flames, fabricate stories, then back off claiming I never said that, did that and that person was never there. Why? Because involvement in Iraq was not the popular thing to do.
Without this they would not have a job, could not stay in their positions of power.

Here is a novel concept let the other parts of the world kill each other, they have been doing so since the beginning of time. The only outcome from our involvement is a division of our country and people of questionable loyalty to our country are now in political power.

Our leaders of the past made a clear statement “ You mess with the USA there will be consequences” . This is no longer true today. We have leaders who want us to believe we can love or hug our enemies into submission.

For those with selective memories here is the history of events leading up to involvement in Iraq.

Bill Clinton: Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 called for a regime change by force. Passed on October 31 1998 by a 360 -38 vote in the House of representatives and unanimous Senate consent.
Interestingly Clinton at the time was concerned about Saddam’s WMD and ties to terrorist.

Clinton on December 16 1998:
“Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons. Other countries possess WMD an ballistic missiles. With Saddam there is one big difference : he has used them. Not once but repeatedly . I have no doubt that , left unchecked he will use these terrible weapons again”.

Al Gore December 16 1998: “ You allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, biological weapons. How many people is he going to kill with such weapons? We are not going to allow him to succeed.”

Enter Bush 2001, we were already at war with Iraq. Essentially had been since the first war in 1991there was no formal surrender; just a cease fire. Bush initially decided not to get involved until 9/11. Afterwards five people were mailed a fatal dose of anthrax. Leaders of our country, including Democrats , feared Saddam would give biological weapons to Al Qaeda.

Those Democrats were:
Charles Schumer (NY) “ Saddam could either use or give terrorist WMD or biological weapons we can not afford to leave him alone”.

Senator Hillary Clinton (NY) “ It is clear, if left unchecked Saddam will continue to increase his capability to wage chemical and biological warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons“.

Senator John Rockfellar “ Saddam’s existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a real threat to America today, tomorrow… he could make these weapons available to terrorist groups, third parties which have contact with our government. Thos groups in turn could bring those weapons into the United States and unleash a devastating attack against our citizens. I fear them greatly”.
Senator Joseph Biden “ Saddam is dangerous. The world would be a better place without him. But the reason he poses a growing danger to the United States and it’s allies is that he posses chemical and biological weapons and is seeking nuclear weapons”.

Perhaps the only Democrat with a clear memory:
Senator John Edwards:
“ I personally did not rely on George Bush, I personally think there’s some dishonesty in suggesting that members of the United States Senate relied on George Bush for that information because I don’t think it’s true. It’s great politics. But it’s not the truth… I was on the Intelligence committee so I got the information from the intelligence community. And then I had a series of meeting with former Clinton administration people. Everything I was hearing in the intelligence committee were all saying the same thing. And there was nary a dissenting voice. I was convinced Saddam had WMD”

So who was guilty of lying to the American people? Not George Bush, but the Democrats.

Fast forward 2004 two separate bipartisan investigations disproved the Democrats claim.
Robb- Silberman report concluded that no political pressure had been put on the intelligence community by Vice president Cheney or the Bush administration to lead to war.

A key point in Bush’s 2003 State of the union address just before the invasion was based upon information from an anonymous source who turned out to be Jospeh C Wilson IV a former US ambassador to the African State if Gabon. He claimed to be sent to Niger because of British intelligence and that Cheney sent him. This all led to the yammering of forgeries of documents, none of which came to light until after intelligence assessments were made.

A bipartisan Senate Select Committee found that:
Cheney had NO role in sending Wilson to Niger, had never been briefed about Wilsons so called findings.
It was concluded that Wilsons own wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA weapons analyst, recommended him for the job. May 2005 Plame released a copy of an email to her boss showing she had recommended her husband.
Wilson himself said he never saw the supposed forged documents he claimed were forgeries.

What does Wilson have to do with this? He was a political activist who contributed to Democrats candidates including Al Gore, Ted Kennedy and Charles Rangle. Interestingly he had also take a position as foreign affairs advisor to John Kerry’s presidential campaign.

Then of course there are all the other key players, Scooter Libby, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Sandy Beger and all the leaking of classified material and exposing of CIA personnel.
When it was all said and done with this portion of events what was the outcome?

Mr. Wilson went public and said he diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush’s closest aides had engaged in illegal conspiracy.

Other Key Players:
David Kay former head of Iraq Survey Group supported the intelligence of the WMD effort and Saddam’s success in keeping them secret.
The Duelfer Report noted that inspectors did find WMD. 53 chemical weapons. This was less than one quarter of 10,000 plus weapons caches in Iraq.
600,000 documents and taped conversations with Saddam and his top advisors revealed his advanced methods of enriching uranium.
GEORGE SADA: second in command Iraqi Air Force detailed in his book Saddam’s Secrets how Saddam used trucks, jets and planes to remove weapons from the country. over 56 flights six weeks prior to war. All disguised as a relief effort to Syria. This was confirmed by Deputy Under Secretary of Defense John Shaw.

Oh and lets not forget a key player JOHN KERRY:
2002 “We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has , and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of WMD. Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. And now he has continued deceit and his consistent grasp for WMD. So the threat of Saddam Hussein with WMD is real”.

Perhaps the real and truthful players in these events are the SOLDIERS, boots on the ground soldiers that were guarding the 550 metric ton of yellow cake uranium found after the invasion. Of course none of this was made news until 2008. (Associated Press 5 July 2008).

Why is 2008 significant? Election year. The flames were fanned for a change of power, a stage was set for Hope and Change. Review the key players list of names. You will see many are now in higher positions of power.

The only hubris is that of the Democratic party.

Aristotle defined hubris as shaming the victim, not because of anything that happened to you or might happen to you, but merely for your own gratification. Hubris is not the requital of past injuries—that is revenge. As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater.

Who was gratified by all of this? The Democrats.

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