Schulberg: Bush is Still Wrong About Iraq
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 16th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Schulberg: Bush is Still Wrong About Iraq
Jessica Schulberg, New Republic: The debate over the legitimacy of the Iraq War was never about whether or not Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction at some point in history. It is well known that Saddam Hussein used a variety of chemical weapons against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s — and the U.S., eager to see the destruction of the nascent Islamic Republic of Iran, aided him in creating the program. But on September 12, 2002, President Bush described a different threat while making the case for the 2003 Iraq invasion: “Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.” The Times’ investigation doesn’t mention any findings of biological weapons. He went on, “The regime is rebuilding and expanding facilities capable of producing chemical weapons.” According to the investigation, the chemical weapons discovered by U.S. soldiers after the 2003 invasion were all manufactured before 1991.