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Sessions’ New Rationale for Iraq Invasion Posted by Danny, on February 20th, 2007, at 8:18 amBloggers on a national level are taking note, and now I’m receiving it in email… In case you missed it, our own Sen. Jeff Sessions has said that one of the reasons we went into Iraq was because Saddam Hussein was saying that he had won the 1991 Gulf War. 
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Jeff Sessions is nothing more than Dubya’s pet monkey, so it doesn’t surprise me. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
If he is going to re-write history to come up with a new reason we went to war, couldn’t it have been something more noble?
True enough, those words about Saddam Hussein saying he had won the war were a part of Sessions’ statement, but only a small part of his statement which included other issues that at the time were considered by most people justification for invading Iraq. I’m not defending Sessions or the war, but to take those words and make so much of them sounds like nitpicking to me.
I think Sessions is a good man trying to represent us well. No doubt that it would be difficult to be a public figure and to be the object of so much scrutiny (though of course in this case he was on the floor of the Senate).
While Sessions did mention other justifications for the invasion, his language (”But for most of us…”) and his vocal emphasis indicate to me that he trying to convey a real conviction and importance in these words.
I tried to indicate in the quote some of the emphasis that his voice gave to the words.
I don’t want to make too much of it either. That’s why I didn’t mention it here earlier. I eventually posted it because enough people were talking about it that I thought others would have interest in knowing about it.
But I understand people’s interest. Yes, Sessions mentioned reasons for invading Iraq like Hussein not complying with resolutions, breaking an embargo, weapons of mass destruction, but then he set those aside by saying “But for most of us…” and then introduced a previously unheard reason that would strike many people as somewhat small-minded.
To be honest, more than anything, I thought it was really odd.
[...] Of course, it’s perfectly o.k. to make fun of Sessions for his views, ideas, and beliefs. He chose those, and has no qualms about putting them into the public square. So if you want to say Sessions is a moron because he thinks Saddam’s belief that he won the Gulf War justified the Iraq invasion, fine. But let’s not make fun of him because he’s short. [...]
My personal experience with Sessions has been he never even replies not even with an auto responder. I would be willing to bet anyone who says they are satisfied with him have never had any personal dealings with him. Since I don’t agree with Bush’s policies I blame our representatives for allowing him to do what he has done. I know this is about Sessions, but our other representatives (Shelby and Rogers) aren’t any better substance wise, but at least they do respond even if all they ever say is I agree with Bush. I try never to talk about the indvidual only their policies and I disagree with all of them.