What if we hadn't attacked Iraq?

[hiaasenrocks]

Bush's alternate reality/universe answers:

Iraq would have attacked us with "horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons."

They would have threatened us with "30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents" and "thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."

Iraq could have decided "on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists."

Don't ask me how we would have tracked all of this because Iraq's "alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints."

So we had to attack because Saddam was "harboring terrorists and the instruments of terror, the instruments of mass death and destruction."

And most of all, please remember: "We did not ask for this present challenge."

Mushroom cloud! Terra, terra, terra.

Yellowcake. Duck!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html

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Let's not forget all the bullshit we were told, the fear that they tried to instill in us all.

[indepat]

1. The only things we have to fear are fear itself and the neocon cabal which has seized control and

put us on a permanent terra alert and war footing, pissing away trillion of dollars in the process and making us much less safe imo.

Edit: verb tense

[woodsprite]

2. Well, according to my SIL, we had to go in to clean up Clinton's mess.

I dislike my SIL with a passion. I said "What, you mean the fact he didn't get Bin Laden?". I reminded her that we still don't have him and Numbnuts and Co. has lost interest in looking for him.

[liberal N proud]

3. More than 3200 Americans would still be alive

Countless numbers would still have arms and legs
Billions of dollars could not have been lost to defense contractors.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. We'd all be speaking Arabic!

And praying in the direction of Mecca!

And there'd be pictures of Saddam Hussein on every wall!

I mean, those of us who were still alive, and those walls that were still standing, because our cities would be radioactive ruins!

How wonderful that God sent us His misbegotten son, Georgette, to save us from all of that.