Shouldn't have been any country but if they had to go they should have taken Saudi Arabia.
The special operations in charge of finding the WMDs located underground storage facilities that housed chemical weapons, casks were located inside, empty, but not enough condemning evidence- even though everyone knew it wasn't for housing rice and grain.
Yes, let's go to war with the one country in the middle east that we've been on good terms with for longer than Israel has been in existence, the one country that sells us the most oil for not insane prices (for the most part). Remember 1991? The Saudis asked US to come protect them and their oil. WE discovered oil there in the 1930's and have, for the most part, been on good terms with their government- for the most part, the royal family has a close friendship with the Bush family and has with almost every single president since WWII. It's the people, a lot of the military leadership, and most of the religious leaders (especially the Wahabbis) that hate us.
Now, the real issue was that we shouldn't have done anything with Iraq until we sorted out Afghanistan, and possibly bitch slapped the Pakis.
If the progressive media decides they can no longer bury this aspect of the story, the spin will be this: Bush Administration Ignored movement of Iraqi WMDs to Syria.
Silly rabbit; it's always Bush's Fault.
So somebody elaborate for me here; someone fairly high up in our intelligence communitiy knew they were moving chemical weapons out of the country, but ignored it? Why?
Just so Bush could look the ass when invading for WMD that were not there?
And we knew they were moving this shit out back then because we saw them doing it, and we didn't A) catch them in the act so that we could have the proverbial blank check to do what we wanted with the offenders, and B) look like world wide heroes for stopping further BS by Saddam.
I don't get this conspiracy theory at all.
How do you mean "Stop them from moving it?" Even if you knew it was chem vs bio, I can't imagine that dropping ordinance on it would be a good thing.
We know about many countries that have WMDs. That doesn't mean we can do anything about it.
Sometimes you can't take the shot even when you want to.
Be safe.