I am not exactly going to give Democrats brownie points for not invading Iraq pre 9-11. That is like saying Trump deserves a cookie for not invading Japan.Old_ones wrote: ↑They had a full 8 years to do it under Clinton and for some reason they failed to. If you think Gore would have done it, I think the burden of proof is on you to show why.Shatterface wrote: ↑ I'm not convinced the Democrats wouldn't have also invaded Iraq. It was Labour who took the UK into war.
There wasn't any reason to tie Iraq to 9/11 and we all knew that was the case at the time. The Iraq invasion was not recommended to Bush and his cronies by intelligence, they misused intelligence to support the course of action they wanted. Noting that Labour supported Bush neglects the question of motivation.
Besides. Enough Democrats were more than happy to facilitate the invasion of Iraq. They were either incompetent or believed in the mission.