Harold Pinter acknowledgement speech

[kandrathe]

I'll ignore the bulk of your post which was pure troll bait...

... and just admit we have been lied to.

No. There was no lie, there was a communication of the worst case scenario. There was a National Security Assessment with some poor intelligence work supporting the suspicions that Iraq was hiding a WMD program. That poor intelligence and wrong conclusion was shared by the US, Britain, Isreal, Germany, France, and many others.

Let's paint a different outcome of history for the "What Ifs"; First assume the Iraq war did not happen and consequently sanctions were lifted (or just ignored), and in the closed society of Iraq, Saddam was now free to rebuild his arsenal. What outcome do you foresee for the Kurds? How long do you think if would be before there would be another war, this time started by Saddam? This time, rather than fighting the war on our terms, in Iraq, it would be in defense of Saudi Arabia, or Jordan. Or perhaps, having survived politically against the West he would have forged a new coalition of at least Yeman, Syria, and covertly possibly others. Explore the possible outcomes from what you know of Saddam, what good could have come from a scenario leaving Saddam in power with the UN failing to enforce sanctions?

Sometimes when you take on the role of policeman, you believe you have evidence that a known criminal is hiding a body in the basement, you storm the house and discover you were wrong. In this case the criminal is standing trial for his other outstanding crimes, and the gangsta's house is being rehabilitated into the neighborhood.