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"We were all wrong"

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David Kay, (now former) head of the US effort to find WMDs in Iraq has confessed that "We were all wrong" -- and that there are no weapons of mass destruction to be found in Iraq.

Now, forgive me if I'm wrong here, but didn't the UN come to this very conclusion over a year ago? Wasn't Iraq itself on its knees, claiming this very thing well over a year ago?

Kay, and pretty much the rest of the US administration, claim that it's all for the best anyways - Saddam Hussein was a "threat" and Iraq is "better off without him."

It saddens me to say this, but I think Iraq may have been better off with Saddam Hussein. Since the US first 'liberated' Iraq, there have been thousands of civilian casualties; the Iraqi infrastructure (water, power) has been devastated; foreign terrorists have swarmed into the country; crime has increased; women's rights are in danger of being stripped from them... the list goes on.

With other people claiming that the war in Iraq was literally illegal, according to the US constitution, my question is - when do the lawsuits in the International Criminal Court start?

Posted by Darren James Harkness on Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:01 AM
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  1. Hard to say... I wouldn't go as far as to say that SH should have been left in power and that iraq would have been "better" off, but I think they basically traded one dictator who was a bastard for another who is a bastard but says "this is for your own good".

    -- Posted by >> Arcterex » Thursday, January 29, 2004 01:32 PM
  2. don't. get. me. started.

    -- Posted by >> amanda » Tuesday, February 3, 2004 12:58 AM

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