Condi Rice Still Wrong on Iraq

Despite Iraq having nothing to do with 9/11, like the Bushies led us to believe. Despite Iraq not having WMD, like they led us to believe. Despite the fact 8 years later we are still occupying Iraq and spending billions every month, which is not the "matter of weeks" they told us it would be (or that it would pay for itself). Despite the fact that we were not welcomed as liberators but as enemies and that we unleashed a brutal civil war in that country. Despite nothing about Iraq the Bushies told us turned out to be true.  Set all that aside for a second and just concede former Secretary of State Rice's points that even though they were sort of kind of wrong about some stuff nevertheless Saddam still posed a threat a to America and the Middle East.  Just concede it for a moment.

Alright Dr. Rice and all you other Bush fans, you're right.  I get it. He was a threat.  Not a threat with WMD and a relationship with the terrorist that attacked us on 9/11 but a threat in some sort of weird way that he was a terrible dictator who punished his very own people but was powerless outside of his country.  So a threat he was.

However, all that overlooks one huge and important point.  Invading Iraq turned our attention and resources away from Afghanistan and the hunt for Bin Laden.  That's why we didn't find him and kill him until 5 days ago.

Whatever threat Saddam posed it was nothing compared to the threat of what happened on 9/11 and the person who was responsible.  But Bush and his administration saw it as being way more important than that.  Which is why they waived off Bin Laden and chose Iraq.  And because of that our entire country paid a dear and lasting price.  So you can have your threat but you cannot possibly argue that invading Iraq did allow for bin Laden and the people actually responsible for 9/11 to free.