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Quote by: rmnunez  I think Bush wanted to attack Iraq and Saddam nicely
set himself up for that.
Undeniably there was deception from Saddam, he admitted he sought
to induce the impression he had WMDs to keep the
Iranians at bay since his military had been demolished after
Desert Storm and he couldn't rebuild them fast enough with
all the sanctions and import restrictions. |
No, the United States set up the invasion, not Saddam. And the sanctions punished the Iraqi people far more than they did Saddam.
Of course, these longstanding efforts aren't only economically strangling Iraqis:
Full cost excluded on Iraq, Afghanistan Quote:
The $515.4 billion in Pentagon spending for 2009 that President Bush proposed to Congress on Monday does not include the cost of fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bush asked for $70 billion as an "emergency allowance" for war costs for the first part of the budget year, which begins Oct. 1.
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