From the president's own speech of 14 Dec 2005:
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We removed Saddam Hussein from power because he was a threat to our security. He had pursued and used weapons of mass destruction. He sponsored terrorists. He ordered his military to shoot at American and British pilots patrolling the no-fly zones. He invaded his neighbors. He fought a war against the United States and a broad coalition. He had declared that the United States of America was his enemy.
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1) Saddam was not a threat to US security. He was no longer a threat to his neighbors – as every adjacent nation said. It was Saddam's own wish to avoid all conflict with the US - even obtaining what he saw (and rightly so from his perspective) approval from the US for an invasion of Kuwait.
2) He pursued WMDs. And then we add the facts a mental midget president (who does not even read his memos) forgets to mention. Such as Saddam destroyed his WMDs in 1996 and began a program of deception so that others did not really know how toothless he was.
3) British and American warplanes were openly attacking Iraqi air defense sites long before the "Mission Accomplished" war. These attacks were preparation for an invasion many months later. George Jr just forgot to mention that part. In many if not most cases, the provocateurs were US and British warplanes - so that air defense facilities would 'light up' their radars - so that those radars could be located and destroyed. Some of those attacks were outside of the No Fly Zone. So why were American and British planes that far north?
4) Yes Saddam fought a war against a coalition. That was the Kuwait war - not the "Mission Accomplished" war. And he lost. But that Kuwait liberation was tarnished by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfovitz, etc when they failed to define a political settlement of that war. They failed to perform their job. They drank champagne rather than provide Schwarzkopf with the necessary conditions of surrender. And so Saddam was permitted to attack and kill maybe 20,000 civilians in Basra as the American army sat only 5 miles away - and watched. Saddam remained in power because America's current leaders (from the George Sr administration) failed to perform their job. They even violated basic principles of war as even defined by Sze Tzu in 500 BC. Let’s not forget who desperately wanted a second Iraq war to correct their historical mistakes.
How convenient this president would distort facts - lie by telling half truths - so that you will think kindly of him. Are you so poorly educated as to not see through his half truths? Some are so politically biased as to deny these facts. Others realize why George Jr needs Rush Limbaugh and Fox News propaganda.
Twist and spin facts for those who blindly believed even lies about aluminum tubes - lies that even experts in America identified. Curious, when the president is a master of propaganda, then many never heard what those experts were saying. Does he still think he can lie and we will believe him? Yes.
Just one paragraph from today's presidential speech - notice how many lies.