The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion | VICE News

I often wonder what our grandkids will be reading in history class. Was pop pop and me maw a hero, a conqueror, a liberator, or a puppet? Whatever is written, or whatever the world thinks, I served alongside the finest Americans I have ever known.......and I'd do it again.

Just to clarify...

1. Saddam DID have WMD's.
How should we know this??? Well President Reagan gave him a buttload of mustard gas during the Iraq/Iran war. (Being that Iran was the "bigger" threat)
Who did he use it on? On the Kurds. His own people.

The big thing was that Saddam WOULD NOT let the UN in to inspect. The UN wanted the war just as badly.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0

2. Have we forgotten about the soldiers that suffered mustard gas exposal in 2008??? Yes, when they found MOST of the NON-WMD's?

3. Congress voted to go to war. It was approved BY THEM. They had the knowledge. Who really cares about what he was "trying" to sell to the American people?? We in the military understand what war IS.

4. As far as the ties between Al-Qaida and Saddam:
"The two cases in point are Abdul Rahman Yasin, a crucial member of the team that bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, and Abu Musad al-Zarqawi, currently the leader of a very deadly and ruthless group known as Monotheism and Jihad, operating in central Iraq. (Mr. Zarqawi is evidently a "hands-on" kind of a guy: He is believed to be, and has claimed to be, the wielder of the murderer's knife in more than one decapitation-porn video.)"
This is only ONE example. There are more.

I can go on and on. So, I think we were still JUSTIFIED.

Be safe.

We went into Iraq for a reason. Right or wrong, we went. We were the Junkyard Dog with a muzzle. This was a very political operation where the military was not in control for the most part. Maj Guy, I do not disagree with your comments about not wanting to move on without learning lessons for next time..... however, POLITICIANS did not learn from last time.... Similar involvement and outcome from Vietnam. I realize that the military is the strong arm of the political machine, however..... once they set an objective, they need to step back and let the military accomplish it post-haste! I was in that region for Desert Shield/Storm and knew back then that we would be back again, as the political winds stopped us from finishing the objective as the military saw it.... I was there during OIF.... "winning the hearts and minds"..... but as soon as the money stopped, so did the winning. That region has issues....and has for at least 2000 years. A pitiful 10 year showing isn't going to change that. IF we want to make significant change, we (America and allies) need to commit for at least 50-75 years, impacting the lives of at least 2 generations, allowing the old generations to die off (along with much of their thought processes). Unless we are willing to commit to that, we will never make a significant difference there....unless THEY are willing to change.