We can say this central point over and over till we are blue in the face - the neocons wanted to invade Iraq well before Bush took office on January 2001.
Guardian UK: Chilcot inquiry: Tony Blair decided on Iraq war a year before invasion - envoy
Tony Blair's government decided up to a year before the Iraq invasion that it was "a complete waste of time" to resist the US drive to oust Saddam Hussein, opting instead to offer advice on how it should be done, the former British ambassador to Washington said today.
He said that the timing of the invasion was dictated by the "unforgiving nature" of the military build-up rather than the outcome of diplomacy or UN weapons inspections, which had not been given sufficient time. British officials were left "scrabbling for the smoking gun" – evidence for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction – as preparations continued.
The message from Downing Street was that the 11 September attacks and the subsequent US determination to oust Saddam were established facts, "and it was a complete waste of time … if we were going to work with the Americans, to come to them and bang away about regime change and say: 'We can't support it'."
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Is it clear yet to anyone in the power elite that GWBV$H is a friggin war criminal that clearly with malice of fore thought invaded a foreign country and started a war of aggression? The man deserves along with Cheney and Rumsfeld to be sent to the Hague for trial along with Tony Blair and a few other war mongers. Is there no end to this madness?
Now Obama is making the same mistake LBJ made in Vietnam and the Russians made in Afghanistan. Instead, of declaring victory and bringing our kids home he's going down a road with no exit no matter what he says.
Just speculating here but I think Obama is getting corporate pressure to maintain the pipelines and access into Central Asia.
Ya think? I think Gates meets with him and says keep doin what we tell ya boy and you actually might live to enjoy your pension...maybe.
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