When To Admit You Were Incorrect?

August 17, 2018 | MosesKnows

[MosesKnows]

I believed there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. After a search discovered no convincing evidence of WMDs I have to admit I was incorrect.

While I may still believe in the back of my mind there were WMDs I have no choice but to admit that no evidence exist to support that belief.

[MosesKnows]

Do you believe that Trump colluded with Putin to steal the presidential election from Hillary Clinton? Are you correct?

[NFHale]

I thought I made a mistake once... but I was wrong.

[yarddog]

I am pretty sure there were many weapons of mass destruction in Iraq despite that idiot Bush admitting there were none.

I think the FBI, the CIA and the IRS all colluded with Hillary and the rest of the Democrats to steal the election. I have no idea how Russia might have been involved.

[dware]

1. We gave Iraq too much warning & time. The WMD's were shipped to Syria. Where do you think the stuff Syria has been using against their people has come from?

2. I've talked with at least 3 different friends/acquaintances who were in Iraq, and were parts of teams that found actual WMD's or remnants thereof.

[Gen.Blather]

https://www.historytoday.com/richard-sanders/what-did-happen-saddam’s-wmd

[freedumb2003]

It is after 5:00 SOMEWHERE!!

Cheers!

*clink*

[Leaning Right]

Many conservatives simply won’t admit that Bush II started an unnecessary war. And many liberals simply won’t admit that Hillary is thoroughly corrupt.

So there is blindness on both sides.

As for Trump colluding with Putin, no way. It doesn’t make any sense. if anything, Putin would want to see crooked Hillary win. She can be bought off. But not Trump.

[sjmjax]

Rush has floated an interesting theory.

Perhaps the 'weapons of mass destruction" was a CIA and other conspirators precursor to the Steele Dossia to discredit Bush

[mjp]

I believed there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. After a search discovered no convincing evidence of WMDs

Satellite Photos Support Testimony That Iraqi WMD Went to Syria

[IC Ken]

Re> The WMD's were shipped to Syria.

They had them. BINGO

[FroggyTheGremlim]

“They have six ways from Sunday ...”

[ConservativeMind]

There was yellow cake and chemical weapons found. Those are both considered “weapons of mass destruction.”

Don’t let yourself fall into that as the “justification” for the Iraq War. It wasn’t.

Saddam agreed to be wiped out if he did not comply with the treaty ending the Iraq War. His non-compliance weekly justified our war.

[vigilence]

The phrase “there is no evidence to prove” this or that is a lawyer trick kind of like “are you still beating your wife”. Just because there is currently no evidence doesn’t mean there wasn’t any previously i.e. the FBI IG report. The coup participants had plenty of time to scrub their communications devices and coordinate their stories prior to the IG investigation. The Clinton’s are masters of this tactic.

[TakebackGOP]

Whether they had WMDs or not, Bush never discussed what happened with them.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Exactly. WMD’s or not, that was an ill-advised military adventure. In fact, centering the discussion on WMD’s misses the point, which is that we have no business deposing foreign governments.

[willyd]

I second your statement.

[arthurus]

There is video of the caravans of trucks taking the WMDs to Syria and lots of our troops have severe medical issues stemming from destroying WMDs in Iraq. Several vets of the march to Baghdad and its aftermath say that was their job at one point, destroying WMDs and organizing found WMDs for shipping to somewhere.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

That may be very true, and that means France won. France was the one country of the coalition who refused to join the Coalition for over 6 months. I always thought that was why they waited so evidence of their footprints could be erased and sent to Syria.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The Frogs were the holdouts and for good reason.

[marron]

They captured a plant, headed by a Iraqi general, that made “nerve agent”. It was protected by an infantry unit, and surrounded by high fences and guard towers. Thanks to the embeds, we saw it on film when it was captured. Then after a few days, they informed us that, no, come to find out, its not nerve agent at all, its “agricultural pesticide”.

Several times after that, they captured Iraqi ammo dumps and found barrels of nerve agent. At one location the embeds got sick from exposure to the chemical. And each and every time, they came back after a few days and revised their reports to say that, no, come to find out, its agricultural pesticide. At military ammo dumps.

What I wondered then was “who” has the power to redefine WMD out of existence. At a time when Bush’s presidency hung by a thread on that very issue, who had that power?