A renowned neocon talking head has stated that in his opinion
four thousand American troops "had to die" in Iraq,
regardless of the fact that Saddam Hussein posed no imminent threat
to the United States.
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney,
also told MSNBC's Chris Matthews during Tuesday's 'Hardball' that
he was "delighted" with the outcome of the Iraq war.
The debate on the Iraq invasion became heated when
Gaffney commented that Hussein presented a "mortal threat"
to the American people.
Matthews laid into him for "still [using]
the strategic language" of the Bush administration.
"Where do you get this from?" Matthews screamed. "We
can't find the weapons, we can't find the rationale, what kind
of mortal threat? Where do you get these words from? Mortal means
you die."
"You guys sold the war as a nuclear threat to the United
States...you sold every trick you could to get us into this war,"
he continued. "And now you're backpedaling. And I do find
it astounding....Four thousand people are dead because of the
way you feel. And Frank Gaffney, you're wrong about this."
Matthews asserted.
Gaffney responded with the following sick comments we have come
to expect from neocons of his ilk:
"My position is it is regrettable that any
Americans died. It is regrettable that they had to die, but
I believe they did have to die. The threat
we knew about was the chemical capability that Saddam Hussein
had used against his own people. The potential for biological
agents were real. There was evidence that there was an ongoing
nuclear program, we had been surprised at how far advanced it
was before. The danger was inaction could have resulted in the
death of a great many more Americans than 4,000. And that’s
the reason I’m still delighted that we
did what we did.”
Watch the video:
(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)
Presumably Gaffney would have no trouble standing
face to face with the families of four thousand dead Americans
and making the same borderline psychopathic statements.
Presumably Gaffney also believes that somewhere
in the region of one million Iraqis also had to die, with millions
more maimed and/or displaced. Presumably he is still "delighted"
with all of these outcomes.
Gaffney is the founder and president of the think
tank Center
for Security Policy, whose stated mission is
to asses"near and long range threats, devise appropriate
actions, and then promote those ideas within the government, Capitol
Hill, newspapers, radio, the internet, and television."
Other members include prominent neocons Richard Perle, Douglas
J. Feith and James G. Roche.
Gaffney's comments come just hours after Vice President
Dick Cheney told
ABC news that it was irrelevant whether or not Iraq
had weapons of mass destruction and that the US invasion would
have gone ahead anyway.
A renowned neocon talking head has stated that in his opinion
four thousand American troops "had to die" in Iraq,
regardless of the fact that Saddam Hussein posed no imminent threat
to the United States.
