White House spokesman Josh Earnest also rejected the notion that the current situation was in any way similar to the run-up to the Iraq war under the George W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n
“I think that there are some very important differences. What we saw in that circumstance was an administration that was searching high and low to produce evidence to justify a military invasion, an open-ended military invasion of another country, with the final goal being regime change,” he said.<\/p>\n
“What we have seen here, tragically, is a preponderance of evidence available in the public domain that the Assad regime used chemical weapons against innocent civilians. And we don’t have to search high and low for that evidence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Um, in 2003, every nation in the world was convinced that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, everyone knew that he was supporting terrorists (remember the $25,000 bounty he was paying to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers), Hussein’s air defense batteries were taking pot shots at our pilots who were enforcing the UN-mandated no-fly zone. There was no “searching high and low” for evidence. However, there are serious doubts about who actually used those chemical weapons in Syria – and oh, by the way, why isn’t anyone discussing the fact that those chemical weapons probably came from Hussein in the first place?<\/p>\n
The Germans are saying that they don’t plan to take part in any operations in Syria and the French say they’re up for anything, so it’s really looking up for the Obama Administration, isn’t it? The French, who wanted no part in the Iraq war, are ready to pound on Syria, so that’s a real feather in our cap, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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