http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/benjamin-netanyahu-address-congress-speaker-mike-johnson-says-rcna153847
“ In anticipation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress on March 3, expected to blast Obama's efforts to strike a nuclear deal with Iran, the administration is going after Netanyahu's record on the last major nuclear debate America had — Iraq.
"The prime minister, as you will recall, was profoundly forward-leaning and outspoken about the importance of invading Iraq under George W. Bush, and we all know what happened with that decision," Secretary of State John Kerry said. "He may have a judgement that just may not be correct [on Iran]."
Indeed, Netanyahu was a rather aggressive Iraq hawk back in the early 2000s. "There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking, is working, is advancing towards to the development of nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said in 2002 testimony to Congress. "Once Saddam has nuclear weapons, the terror network will have nuclear weapons,"
Not only did Netanyahu get the nuclear issue wrong — Saddam was not building a nuclear program after all — but he incorrectly predicted that the war would inspire an Iranian democratic uprising that would topple the theocratic regime.
"If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region," Netanyahu claimed. "And I think that people sitting right next door in Iran, young people, and many others, will say the time of such regimes, of such despots is gone."
Sure ASSHOLE, SURE.
Check the video…..
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/26/8114221/netanyahu-iraq-2002
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