It seems that despite the fact that Ted Kennedy and other Democrats are gleefully attempting to claim that the rebuilding of Iraq is a failure, others have different ideas:
What is less expected is the venom with which some in Congress are second-guessing President Bush’s decision to free Iraq. Their criticism is based on two factors: the military’s failure to unearth weapons of mass destruction and the inability to document a pre-war statement made by Bush that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa for a revived nuclear program.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., appearing on NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday, said, “There is a broader issue, and that is the failed policy toward Iraq.”
Members of Iraq’s new Governing Council would no doubt disagree. They are jubilant that the tyrant is gone and eager to create a new country in which all religious and political groups have voice. Little wonder that the council, as a first order of business, wanted to create a judicial body to try crimes of the Hussein regime, including the massacre of 8,000 members of the Kurdish Barzani tribe in 1983 and the killing of 300,000 Shiites following the 1991 Gulf War. (The New York-based Human Rights Watch has opposed the idea, saying it would be almost impossible to ensure fair treatment of the accused.)
Second-guessing is inevitable, but the facts remain. Hussein was a brutal and ruthless dictator who had admitted to the possession of 10,000 nerve gas warheads, 1,500 chemical weapons and 412 tons of chemical weapons agents.
Saddam Hussein is gone, and a democratic council is up and running. To call that a failure is to ignore reality.
Democrats ignoring reality is nothing new.
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“Second-guessing is inevitable, but the facts remain. Hussein was a brutal and ruthless dictator who had admitted to the possession of 10,000 nerve gas warheads, 1,500 chemical weapons and 412 tons of chemical weapons agents.”
And the US sold Iraq their chemical weapons, so what are you saying?