"Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
The above quote is from the Downing Street memo, dated 8 months prior to the Iraq invasion. In other words, all dubya's hoopla about using war as a last resort, and giving the weapons inspectors opportunities to find WMD's, and all the other rhetoric was just lip service. Dubya was taking this country to war no matter what and for god knows what. It wasn't about WMD's. It wasn't about any kind of threat to the USA. It was because Saddam had outlived his usefulness to the CIA, and dubya didn't want him talking.
Do you think Saddam is really going to get a fair trial? I doubt it. He'll either get a completely unfair trial, in which he will not be allowed to present any kind of relevant case, or he will die in prison first, thereby erasing the threat that he would bring to light a lot of dirt against the CIA; the same CIA that dubya was tasked to oversee. Saddam will never, ever get a fair trial. It would cost this country way too much exposure.
Thousands of US soldiers have been killed and maimed. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed and maimed. If ever the Muslem world hated the US, their hatred has been increased tenfold. Sure the Americans are winning little battles. Sure, we're finding insurgents' bunkers, and weapons caches. Sure, our soldiers are doing the best they know how to do, to keep themselves alive. Sure they are rebuilding the schools and hospitals and whatever that they destroyed. But, I'm not sure they can actually win the war, whatever that means. Winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqis is completely out of the picture now. All we can do is squelch the insurgency, and call that a win. What a loss, really.
But, what did they destroy them for and kill thousands for in the first place? To take down one man? How is this killing justified? How is the $$billions of American money spent worth this kind of killing and destruction? Well, it isn't. No way, no how. It's criminal. What a horrific waste of resources.
This Downing Street memo is proof positive that dubya committed high crimes and misdemeanors. Treasonous acts against the American people and the world at large, and of course against the Iraqi people. Their lives are in utter chaos now. Electricity is sporadic at best. Their water supply is hopefully being restored. The hospitals that we destroyed are slowly being fixed. Let's not forget that these $$billions are not being used for American schools and hospitals and roads and bridges and medical care and food, etc. What a waste. What a cruel waste and joke on the American people.