Lies About The Iraq War

Lies About The Iraq War - Or were they really just intelligence lapses?

Porphyrogenitus examines them. The synopsis:

1) The Iraqi Army would fight much harder to defend its country than it did in Kuwait.
2) Iraq is not Afghanistan - it will take half a million American troops and at least six months to capture Baghdad, resulting in 50,000 American casualties (of which approximately 10,000 would be deaths).
3) Iraq will draw Israel into the war, leading to a larger Middle East conflagration.
4) There would be massive resistance from the Iraqi population defending their country from invasion.
5) There would be street by street, house to house fighting in Baghdad that would destroy the city, cost thousands of American casualties, and drag on for six weeks or more.
6) A war would create a huge humanitarian crisis as millions of refugees fled Iraq, overwhelming neighboring countries ability to deal with it.
7) A war would create such disruption in the food distribution system and so destroy the water infrastructure that it would result in hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Iraqis dying of starvation and disease.
8) That mythological boogieman, the "Arab Street", would rise up against us and destabilize friendly, pro-Western regimes in the region.
9) Saddam Hussein has no ties to terrorism, but if we attack him then he will launch terror attacks in the U.S. and we will thus produce the very thing we're trying to avoid.
10) War with Iraq would distract from the war on terrorism and it would derail any chances for the Middle East Peace Process.

Porphyrogenitus' response to each of these "lapses" on the left's part are, natch, on his site. Check it out.

Posted by Mitch at July 16, 2003 01:07 PM