Morning Briefing
For September 4, 2013
1. On Syria: Not At This Time
For
two years, President George W. Bush made a public case for an invasion
of Iraq. He built public support, international support, and
congressional support. His administration documented CIA intelligence on
weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein’s personal cheerleading
over 9/11, the dictator attempting to assassinate President George H. W.
Bush after the President had left office, Al Qaeda’s use of Iraq as a
training ground for further attacks on our interests, and then he
explained how this all merged into a real and tangible threat to our
national security interests. The United States and its allies prosecuted
the case before the UN Security Council getting more than 16
resolutions over a decade leading up to Bush’s push.