When George W. Bush became President in January 2001, American policy towards Iraq was in free fall and the United Nations sanctions against Saddam’s regime, in place since the first Gulf War, were in tatters.
By early 2003, Bush had achieved something most analysts had thought impossible: sanctions on Iraq were tighter than ever and inspectors were back in the country. Most surprising, Saddam Hussein had reportedly offered to go into exile, as long as he could take $1 billion with him.
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Oh the irony. We ran our forces into the ground chasing shadows in Iraq while Iran went full bore into nuke development. ooops
ReplyDeleteAnd now this is being treated like a revelation? The enlightened ones among us knew the inevitable mistakes long before they were made.
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