The Bush administration lying about Iraq is normally a quip I hear from people on the hard left; I didn’t expect to hear it from Nick Gillespie. I’ll admit that for most of my life I’ve never cared about politics until recently (2008 or so), but in doing my own research on why we went into Iraq, I’ve never found anything that remotely looks like an intentional lie. Certainly we were mistaken about the WMD’s, but we weren’t the only ones. Much of the world believed that Hussein was trying to get them. In fact, it was the Clinton administration who passed a law that said that it should be the policy of the United States to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government. They knew that Saddam Hussein was dangerous and believed he was in fact a threat to the United States. And after 9/11, the time of being passive was over. We went to Afghanistan and then turned our eyes onto another ‘sleeping’ threat, Iraq. Certainly it turned into a huge debacle of mismanagement until the renowned surge, but I’ve never believed that Bush lied to take is us into war and I just can’t find the evidence to support it.
Nick has a great head on his shoulders and I agree with him on many many things, but I do find it disconcerting that he believes that Bush lied about Iraq.
To see the interview in it’s entirety, which has nothing to do with the war in Iraq, go here.