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For me, the problem is her involvement with the Bush Iraq fiasco. Lying about weapons of mass destruction.


Then you must hate everyone. Everyone in Congress believed it. Multiple countries around the world believed it too. Good luck with that attitude.


Europe didn't buy the lies. There were a lot of rallies against the war. And UK is not political part of Europe. It is more like 52'nd US state.

Russia and China were meh.


Believing it != directly lying about it. You can't rightly hold it against someone that they were misled.


> Everyone in Congress believed it.

Wrong.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml


They believe it because Bush and Rice said so. They, on the other hand, had all of the US intelligence services to provide them with data.


Yeah, like those liars the Russians, the Chinese, the British, the French, ... Damn how was Bush able to brainwash the whole UN!


The Russians, the Chinese and the French, really?


Yes, all believe they Iraq had an ongoing chemical and nuclear weapons program (remember the attempt to send in inspectors). Not all agreed to going to war, but consensus they had some pretty nasty weapons.


The attempt? The UN absolutely sent inspectors. That people didn't trust Saddam and wanted to make sure that he was not fooling around is one thing. To invade the country on exaggerated or just made up claims is entirely different. I don't know about China or Russia, but from what I understand, Chirac never really bought into the "proofs" proffered by the US. As for other countries who did go to war, it's a question of how much their leadership was convinced, and how much they did it to gain political credit (eg, a whistleblower leaked information from the Danish military intelligence clearly showing they were not sure at all Saddam had any WMD).


> The attempt? The UN absolutely sent inspectors.

Fox News and certain American talk radio hosts heavily promoted the belief that adequate inspections never occurred and that Hans Blix's conclusions were not to be trusted (because he hated America?). efa's understanding of the events might be based on such sources.




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