Title: Gen. Hugh Shelton: Bush Officials Pushed For Iraq War 'Almost To The Point Of Insubordination' Source:
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Former Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton says that, during the Bush administration, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, and other Pentagon officials pushed to go to war with Iraq "almost to the point of insubordination."
"There was a very strong push in those days for us to go into Iraq, and there was absolutely no intelligence, zero, that pointed toward the Iraqis.," he told Christiane Amanpour on ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday. "It was all Al Qaida, Osama bin Laden. And yet there was an element there that was -- that was pushing to go into Iraq at the same time."
George Bush was focused on Afghanistan and initially resisted the pressure to invade Iraq, Shelton says. But he was eventually convinced.
"Afghanistan, remember, was going very, very well," Shelton said. "The drumbeat back here in Washington was still pushing, coming out of the Pentagon, let's go to Iraq, let's get -- take him out. And he finally said, let's go."
Given that...Please please please, lets review the past few years related to Iraq, Lefties. Sure. Obama is continuing to implement the treaty that Bush signed with the Iraqis that will have all U.S. forces out by the end of next year.
Talking about WMD's, and the shrieks from the Left there were none, none were found, Bush Lied, blah blah blah.
Course you know this, and just want to change the topic away from this, because it demonstrates the Dems lied for almost a decade.
Talking about WMD's, and the shrieks from the Left there were none, none were found, Bush Lied, blah blah blah.
Again, I'm not sure what you are talking about. We have found scattered chemical rounds left-over from pre-gulf War I. That has been common knowledge for years.
What we have never found is any evidence of stockpiles, active production of weapons, mobile weapons labs, or a reconstituted nuclear program, all of which Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld claimed existed prior to the invasion.
What we have never found is any evidence of stockpiles, active production of weapons, mobile weapons labs, or a reconstituted nuclear program, all of which Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld claimed existed prior to the invasion.
...all of which Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Clinton/Lieberman/Gore/Hillary Clinton/Reid/John Kerry/Boxer/Durbin/Feingold/Kennedy/Byrd/ et al claimed existed prior to the invasion.
...all of which Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Clinton/Lieberman/Gore/Hillary Clinton/Reid/John Kerry/Boxer/Durbin/Feingold/Kennedy/Byrd/ et al claimed existed prior to the invasion.
They were told they existed. Perhaps they didn't fully believe the party line but were unwilling to take the political risk that they might be wrong.
Maybe. Bottom line is they all claimed this, from Reagan through the invasion. So did almost every world leader worht mentioning.
They claimed they existed, but only Bush claimed that he had reconstituted his nuclear program, that he was building an army of drones, and that he KNEW where the weapons were being hidden.
And ultimately, only the Bush administration ordered the invasion of Iraq.
