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Hack's Target: Bad Call on Iraq
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Aug 11, 2003 09:39pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Monday, August 11, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By David H. Hackworth
A whole bunch of folks here in the USA and around this beat-up globe are all worked up over George W. Bush’s 16 shifty words in his “Let's Do Saddam” State of the Union speech when they should be taking a harder look at the president's judgment on the most critical matter to a state: war.
After all, most Oval Office dwellers during my lifetime told their fair share of whoppers. Just to name a few of the super-doozies: Ike and the Gary Powers spy-plane fiasco; LBJ and the phony Tonkin Gulf incident; Nixon and Watergate; Clinton and “I did not have sex with that woman.”
Our covert war against Iraq began under Clinton and became increasingly more aggressive under Bush right up until he officially declared we were at war last March. For several years before the war became overt, a group of sergeants and junior officers kept reporting to me that they were eyeballing enough satellite imagery and radio-intercept documents to convince these good soldiers that Saddam had a well-stocked arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. No 16-word nuke weapons, mind you, but enough tons of biological and chemical weapons to cause serious pain.
Before sounding off, I’d always ring former Marine and weapons inspector Scott Ritter and bounce the hot skinny off him. And this brave and so far most prescient analyst would always shoot it down: “Hack, Saddam doesn't have WMD. Full stop.”
But I figured my info was solid, particularly since it tracked with what the president and all his chicken hawks were putting out. Let's face it – they had a $30-billion network sucking intelligence from worldwide sources. |
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