Can you list these impeachable crimes? I mean, c'mon, do you REALLY believe that Bush knew full well that Iraq DIDN'T have WMD yet went in front of the world and claimed that they did?
Let's look at just a couple of items.
- Mr Bush told Mr Blair that the US was so worried about the failure to find hard evidence against Saddam that it thought of "flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours". Mr Bush added: "If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach [of UN resolutions]."
- Mr Bush even expressed the hope that a defector would be extracted from Iraq and give a "public presentation about Saddam's WMD." He is also said to have referred Mr Blair to a "small possibility" that Saddam would be "assassinated."
Firstly, what is the legality surrounding the issue of painting US military planes with UN colors to provoke an attack? And is it ethical, or even legal for that matter, for a head of state(such as Bush) to suggest or even order the assassination of another person?
The Downing Street memo lists plenty of "fixes." For instance:
Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
"...justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD." ??? Again, where is this supposed link between terrorists attacking the USA and Iraq? If the link is not there, the only way for it to appear is to fabricate one. It then only makes sense that the "facts were being fixed around the policy."
It may take yet another several years or decades before we truly know why GWB wanted to invade Iraq. Was it to spread democracy? No. To liberate the Iraqi people from an oppressive regime? No. These two explanations were given to the world after the fact when the idea of finding WMD's didn't work out the way they wanted it to. GWB says that God is using him. Fine. Whatever floats your boat. "Far-leftists" claim two possible reasons for the invasion. One, to establish a stong foothold militarily within the region. And two, to control the natural resources(oil). We shall see several years from now how Iraq will become beneficial to the USA. Will Iraq become the next launching site for yet another military campaign against a predominantly Muslim country? Will Iraq's oil flow more cheaply into our reserves and refineries?
I just still find it hypocritical of Bush to target a country based on spreading democracy and establishing human rights all the while he lets Saudi Arabia continue on without any repurcussions. I just don't get it.