Posted on Mar 19, 2023
A Look Back at How Fear and False Beliefs Bolstered U.S. Public Support for War in Iraq
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Twenty years ago this month, the United States launched a major military invasion of Iraq, marking the second time it fought a war in that country in a little more than a decade. It was the start of an eight-year conflict that resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. servicemembers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
The war began on March 19, 2003, with
The war began on March 19, 2003, with
A Look Back at How Fear and False Beliefs Bolstered U.S. Public Support for War in Iraq
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Saddam Hussein was a clear and present danger. What this article didn't say was most countries agree with the intelligence we received. I understand it is popular to look at not finding no NBC weapons as proof none existed. Examining that reasoning is almost laughable even although it's very popular in today's world when people want to bash our reasoning for the war.
Here is a quote from Georges Sada: “Sada, the former Air Vice-Marshal under Hussein, appeared the following day on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, where he discussed his book and reported that other pilots told him that Hussein had ordered them to fly portions of the WMD stockpiles to Damascus in Syria just prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.”
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Georges_Sada#Personal_life
Here is a quote from Georges Sada: “Sada, the former Air Vice-Marshal under Hussein, appeared the following day on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, where he discussed his book and reported that other pilots told him that Hussein had ordered them to fly portions of the WMD stockpiles to Damascus in Syria just prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.”
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Georges_Sada#Personal_life
General Georges Hormiz Sada (aka Gewargis or George Hormis; Arabic: كوركيس هرمز ساده, Syriac: ܓܘܪܓܝܣ ܗܪܡܙ ܣܕܐ; born 1939?) is an Iraqi of Assyrian descent, an author, former Iraqi National Security Advisor and retired general officer of the Iraqi Air Force. Georges Sada was born in 1939 in Iraq into a Christian family of Assyrian ethnicity (see his account). As a boy, Sada attended the Assyrian Church of the East with his family, later...
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