“They (WMD’s) were found; they were re-defined and they vanished.”
I have to admit until I started reading this board I thought no WMD’s were found. Bush never even claims that they were found. What’s up with that? You’d think he’d want to defend his own policies.
Its a mystery to me. I thought at the time, why would they deny what had already been found? Whose interest does it serve? Who has that power?
And I don’t have an answer. I really don’t.
Remember when CIA reported that there was no uranium smuggling in Africa? Right after that, Libya surrendered and part of what they gave up was their yellow-cake. Half of it was older stuff they had smuggled in from Niger years before, and then admitted to and documented. The other half they smuggled in more recently... from Niger, again, and never told anyone about.
No one in the press ever asked, if there is no yellowcake smuggling in Niger, how did Nigerienne yellowcake get to Libya? There is occasionally an astonishing lack of curiousity in the press, and it was CIA’s own WMD division that was claiming that Niger didn’t do contraband. And that Bush was lying about it. You’ll remember the whole story, but no one ever asked about Libya.
And Bush never mentioned it, not even to defend himself, not even when he was on the edge of losing an election over it.
Bush and Cheney have taken a tremendous pounding over the decision to invade Iraq, there is no connection to Bin Ladin ad nauseaum. But its not a secret that the first World Trade Center attack was led by guys arriving from Baghdad, who then escaped back to Baghdad. Its not a secret, but its also not talked about. And the cousin of the guy who led the first attack led the second attack on 911, but there is no connection. None at all. If you mention it, you’re delusional. Just get it out of your mind.
There are people who want to impeach Bush over the Iraq war. And yet he never defends himself. He just keeps taking care of business but never says a word. Its a mystery to me.