Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
As stated before, there were reports from Russia that Saddam did have plans to attack us in a 9-11 fashion. Besides that, an attempt to assassinate an ex-President shouldn't be taken lightly.
I read the Post article, and it did not say whether our attack on Iraq was in response to information about Iraq preparing these aleged terrorist attacks, or if Iraq planning to attack us was in response to us planning to attack them. The timing is important. It became clear we were moving toward war in 2002, so I'm sure Iraq began to plan for all of their options by then.

In addition, plans to not mean intent. We have plans for nuking Russia and China, but it deosn't mean we intend to do it.

And this claim may not even be true. Certainly Bush never said before the war we need to take out Saddam becasue he is planning attacks against us, which would have been a lot more compelling argument than the ones given. At the time the reasoning was that Saddam was making WMD, which he COULD provide to a terrorist group, which MIGHT then use them against us. So it makes it seem like this claim is just more spin after the fact. Maybe Putin gets something out of making this claim. After enough verifiable lies and mistakes about how we went to war, it's hard to believe anything about it at this point.
dragonrider Reviewed by dragonrider on . Bush: Bad president? Or WORST president EVER? I may have possibly revealed my own bias in the title of this thread, but YOU get to decide, and to be fair, there are options other than Bad and Worst. You can even select Best if you are crazy (don't let me influence your vote -- select Best if you really want to, you crazy nutjob). Whatever you vote for, please post a reason. If you think he is bad, why? If you think he is good, what are his accomplishments and who do you think has done a worse job? For example: I think George W. Bush Rating: 5