a reason Saddam may have claimed to have WMD's
In 2002 George W. Bush listed his axis of evil, in these included Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the next year a series of lies proposed that Iraq had WMD's including the material to build a nuclear bomb, this resulted in large scale coalition invasion led by the United States and Britain to overthrow Saddam Hussein constituting direct regime change.
A claim made by George W. Bush in recent years and up until he left office stated that he had to invade Iran since Saddam claimed he had WMD's "until the end."
Was Saddam threatening Iran with WMDs?
Iraq was a powerful nation up until 1991 when the US and Britain blew the shit out of it and then installed heavy economic sanctions that resulted in the deaths of one million Iraqi's, Iraq was now a third world country broken backed country while Saddam clung on for power.
Now that Iraq was weak Iran might have a likely chance of militarily annexing the Shia population (most of the south of Iraq) into the Islamic Republic, this is what Saddam feared and the reason he launched the invasion of Iran in September of 1980.
So Iran in say the mid 1990's up until 2001 were at least prepared if not preparing to somehow take out Saddam and military annex the south of if not all of the broken backed Iran, a Tom Clancy book followed this scenario written in 1996.
Saddam had plans to develop nuclear weapons up until 1991 when his country was blown back to the stone age, his military from then on had little air power, his Republican Guard was still large and had several tanks but as the 2003 invasion proved very unorganized and dissolved very easily since they weren't coordinated to their full strength.
So to stop Iran from attempting an invasion if Saddam threatened the use of a nuclear bomb against an Iranian city in retaliation for any Iranian attack, there is no proof that the nuclear program was even continued since 1991 since there were no weapons found since the 2003 invasion when the United States took direct control of the country.
So was it a word game between Saddam and the current Iranian regime that led to George Bush repeating the smoking gun as a mushroom cloud that was an excuse for his stupid invasion to overthrow Saddam?
It is a weird scenario but is one that makes a lot of sense!
A claim made by George W. Bush in recent years and up until he left office stated that he had to invade Iran since Saddam claimed he had WMD's "until the end."
Was Saddam threatening Iran with WMDs?
Iraq was a powerful nation up until 1991 when the US and Britain blew the shit out of it and then installed heavy economic sanctions that resulted in the deaths of one million Iraqi's, Iraq was now a third world country broken backed country while Saddam clung on for power.
Now that Iraq was weak Iran might have a likely chance of militarily annexing the Shia population (most of the south of Iraq) into the Islamic Republic, this is what Saddam feared and the reason he launched the invasion of Iran in September of 1980.
So Iran in say the mid 1990's up until 2001 were at least prepared if not preparing to somehow take out Saddam and military annex the south of if not all of the broken backed Iran, a Tom Clancy book followed this scenario written in 1996.
Saddam had plans to develop nuclear weapons up until 1991 when his country was blown back to the stone age, his military from then on had little air power, his Republican Guard was still large and had several tanks but as the 2003 invasion proved very unorganized and dissolved very easily since they weren't coordinated to their full strength.
So to stop Iran from attempting an invasion if Saddam threatened the use of a nuclear bomb against an Iranian city in retaliation for any Iranian attack, there is no proof that the nuclear program was even continued since 1991 since there were no weapons found since the 2003 invasion when the United States took direct control of the country.
So was it a word game between Saddam and the current Iranian regime that led to George Bush repeating the smoking gun as a mushroom cloud that was an excuse for his stupid invasion to overthrow Saddam?
It is a weird scenario but is one that makes a lot of sense!
Labels: iran iraq war, iraq war, saddam hussein
posted by Paul Iddon @ 2:09 PM
3 Comments:
At July 22, 2009 12:17 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Saddam didn't say he had WMDs beginning at least by the build up until the US invasion. Iraq was ordered by the UN Security Council to produce a report of any remaining WMDs it had. Iraq produced a long report claiming it had none. The US ordered the Iraqi report classified, and it was not even given to other members of the UN Security Council.
Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell and Dick Cheney all said they had proof the Iraqi report's statements that Iraq had not WMDs was false, and that Iraq really did have hidden WMDs.
Turns out Saddam was telling the truth. Rice, Powell and Cheney were lying.
The idea that Saddam "claimed" to have WMDs before the US invasion of Iraq is black-is-white upside down deceptive thinking.
At July 24, 2009 12:31 AM ,
Anonymous said...
There were interviews with Saddam right before he was executed where he said he claimed Iraq had WMDs to keep Iran from invading.
At July 28, 2009 4:41 PM ,
rightwingnutjob said...
Not everything in life is a conspiracy theory.
Maybe Saddam said had said he had WMD, because he actually had them. We just haven't found them yet. So let's not rush to a premature judgment, give it time, who knows what might turn up?
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