Sandra Day O'Connor Doubts Decision To Take Bush V. Gore

BOTH partys were declaring that something HAD to be done about Saddam and his wmds

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Both parties were NOT declaring that the US attack Iraq.  

It took George W. Bush lying to Congress, saying that Saddam Hussein had yellowcake, to get that AUMF vote.  And even that was done with a promise by Bush that he wouldn't do anything without first getting a broad coalition and UN support and consult again with Congress.

Whatever Saddam did to his own people, he did it with US knowledge, support and materials.  He was being kept in check by sanctions, no fly zones and UN inspections.  Even UN inspectors said that he did NOT have WMD, nor did they support an invasion.  It was Bush who pulled UN weapons inspectors out of Iraq on the eve of starting the war.  

Let's also remember that Bush's ultimatum about regime change in Iraq (who the heck was Bush to be issuing ultimatums about a sovereign country?) and giving Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave the country actually got the result Bush was claiming to want.  Saddam agreed to exile.  But that wasn't what Bush (and the Arab League) wanted (oil and war profiteering), and so he ignored it, and pretended it hadn't happened and went ahead with the war.  All of this was unbeknownst to and out of the oversight of Congress (it's important to also remember John Bolton ordering NSA intercepts on members of our government at that time).

We don't have to guess about what Gore would have done - He said he wouldn't support it.
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