By David Edwards
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney insisted on Wednesday that President George W. Bush would never have invaded Iraq if he had known that were no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the country.
“If we knew at the time of our entry into Iraq that there were no weapons of mass destruction, if somehow we had been given that information, why, obviously we would not have gone in,” the candidate told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd.
“You don’t think we would have gone in at all?” Todd asked.
“Well, of course not,” Romney declared. “The president went in based upon intelligence they had weapons of mass destruction. Had he known that was not the case, the U.N. would not have put forward resolutions authorizing this type of action. The president would not have been pursuing that course, but we did not know that. Based upon what we knew at the time, we were very much under the impression as a nation — as our president was under the impression — that they had weapons of mass destruction, that Saddam Hussein was intent on potentially using those weapons. And so, he took action based upon what he knew.”
“But to go back and say, ‘Knowing what we know now, would we have gone in?’ Well, knowing what we know now, they did not have weapons of mass destruction. There would have been no effort on the part of our president or others to take military action,” the former Massachusetts governor added.
There is evidence to suggest that Bush was told that Iraq had no WMD before he gave the order to launch a military action that would eventually last longer than World War II and cost more than the Vietnam War.
Read More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/21/romney-bush-wouldnt-have-invaded-iraq-if-h...
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