[Attention Surplus Disorder]

One can villify the media all they may wish to over this issue, but the pure hatred has to be reserved for Rove.

Arguably, the failure to fight back against the “Bush lied, people died” thing (which still is heard TO THIS DAY) cost Congress and cost the presidency and in the end, this could cost the country. At the risk of being a tad overdramatic. But this decision could have been reversed AT ANY TIME over 5 years. It could have been reversed covertly, by having some other outlet release the information. The impact of this decision will last for many years. It’s already lasted a decade.

Incredible. Rove should be fed into one of Saddams’ old plastic shredders.

[taxcontrol]

Let the spin, begin.

[crazydad]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/secret-us-mission-hauls-uranium-iraq/

[driftless2]

Reasonable people can argue whether it was worthwhile eradicating Saddam whether he had WMDs or not. But the fact is for five years the media was screaming NO WMDs FOUND....SADDAM HAD NO WMDs....BUSH LIED!!!!

The Dems knew Hussein had WMDs. Heck, Clinton was the president who passed the act to remove Hussein BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!! Even when reports of WMDs being fired at U.S. troops (as reported by ABC News in 2004) the Dems and leftists persisted in their lies about no WMDs.

Now we've found about 5,000 WMDs in various stages of decomposition. Although many are corroded, many are still dangerous. A degraded WMD just means less than 100% capable. I doubt many people would like to dip their hands in a mustard gas canister to find out how degraded it was.

[Billthedrill]

Glad to see all the denial, actually, because it validates what was becoming a lost-cause feeling even among conservatives. Were the media in any way honest they'd admit they were mistaken and fall back onto the "but that wasn't the only reason Bush went into Iraq" stance, which also is the truth.

Instead we have simple, childish, bitter clinging to what was never more than spin to begin with. The truth isn't in these people. Nice to see that verified.

[TigersEye]

• Wikileaks documents show WMDs found in Iraq
• Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq
• WMDs Found in Iraq Human Events
• Saddam talked of WMD attack in U.S.
• Saddam's WMD have been found
• Saddam's WMD Moved to Syria, An Israeli Says
• Saddam general: WMDs in Syria
• Deadly chemicals are found dumped in river
• Evidence of WMDs in Iraq - Annonymous Freeper in Iraq
• Cyanide Salt Block Found in Iraq
• MSNBC - Cyanide & Mustard Agents Found in Euphrates River
• EUPHRATES 'POISONED'
• Iraq's nuclear weapons program.
• Iraq's biological weapons program.
• Iraq's chemical weapons program.

[Wuli]

The GWBush quote: “Many people have asked how close
Saddam Hussein is to developing a nuclear weapon. Well, we
don’t know exactly, and that’s the problem.”

WAS and IS the crux of the cause against Saddam. At the time, it was considered a very high security risk to NOT be able to answer that question, with total transparency & clarity. The war followed Saddam making it clear that he was not going to help get to those answers. It - the security issue - was not “Saddam had ‘the bomb’, but post-9/11 it became imperative we find out. Saddam, not the U.S. made the war inevitable under the circumstances. He had the ability to change the whole dynamic and prevent the war, by behaving as South Africa did when ending their WMD programs. Saddam chose the war, because he chose not to make its alternative possible with answers and cooperation that would satisfy everyone. The U.S. did not go to war because GWBush lied, but because Saddam was not willing to provide the truth.