Video of Bibi's stunningly wrong 2002 anlaysis of Iraq and the predicted results of an invasion
This was Netanyahu in Sept. 2002, providing his "expert testimony" to Congress about the "threat" it posed, as well as his rosy predictions of all the good things that would result from a U.S. invasion. Watching it twelve and a half years later, and seeing just how completely, thoroughly wrong he was in every respect, it is simply mind-boggling that anyone in this country would listen to anything this man has to say about anything.
It was unprecedented when Bush declared that the U.S. had a unilateral right to conduct a preemptive strike. Many Americans are willing -- far too willing, if you ask me -- to forgive themselves for their blind and uncritical willingness to be taken in by Bush's disastrous plan because, hey, it was post 9-11 and "we were 'skeered." I never did buy that crap, but even if I did, we have no such excuse in the present moment.
If ever there was a case study in the folly of undertaking a preemptive war based upon a perception of a threat -- real, imagined or, as was the case with Iraq, deliberately hyped -- then surely the Iraq war was it. Yet here we are nearly 13 years later, having yet another overheated debate about the need, even in the absence of hard evidence, to take preemptive military action against an alleged, and similarly hyped, threat. And the result was half a million dead Iraqis, 2 million displaced from their homes, thousands of dead American soldiers, and tens of thousands of soldiers who must cope with profoundly life-altering injuries, physical and mental, for the rest of their lives, and for WHAT? No one in the region or anywhere else in the world has been made one iota safer. If anything, the people in the region are at considerably greater risk now than they were before the invasion. The fact that Congress is even discussing the possibility of yet another preemptive strike against a country based upon scant and heavily disputed evidence is enough to make me want to go looking for a very high bridge.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4529120/netanyahus-expert-testimony-iraq-2002
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