"Americans Had To Die"

"Constituted a mortal threat"

Frank Gaffney, right-wing commentator, is in way over his head with Chris Matthews.

He said Iraq posed a mortal threat to Americans because they killed Americans? When? Gaffney is still trying to link 9/11 to Iraq.

He then jumps to biological weapons and Hussein's intent. Yes, Hussein used biological weapons on his own people, in the 1980s. After the first Iraq War in 1991, those were destroyed and Iraq was never allowed to rebuild that program through US and UN monitoring.

Then the kicker. Gaffney, responding to Matthews stating 4,000 lives were lost based on all these mistakes:

"My position is that it’s regrettable that any Americans died. It is regrettable that they had to die, but I believe they did have to die."

The ultimate Right Wing Chickenhawk NeoCon.



CrooksAndLiars adds:

"It astounds me that people like Gaffney can continue to cling to the idea that Saddam really did pose an imminent threat/that he really had WMD/that the intelligence wasn't cooked etc. and still be regarded as some sort of foreign policy expert who should be taken seriously. It's 100% clear now that the administration "fixed the facts around the policy" by cherry-picking dubious intelligence reports that supported their case while ignoring others (that were far more credible) that disproved it. Not only should Gaffney and his ilk be laughed out of town, they should be committed and/or indicted."

Source: ThinkProgress