Chris Matthews: 'There Was No Intelligence Saddam Had WMD. Never'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[VRWCarea51]

When your parent’s data package is maxed, try cruising Arby’s lot. They have free WiFi. Hardly ever drops.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Oh, wait. Except that he used them, against the Iranians and the Kurds. That sounds an awful lot like proof that he had them.

[Intolerant in NJ]

: Well I have a theory. My theory is that WMD had nothing to do with that war. It was a sales piece. The whole idea of WMD, even the phrase WMD, was to conflate a lot of things. It was to suggest nuclear without having to prove it and therefore it made it easier for them to make the threshold argument that they had even a weapon....actually in this I think Chrissy is sort of correct - WMD was really a concrete representation of a number of reasons for us going into Iraq - it was easiest and most dramatic to talk about WMD, which of course there were, but we also wanted to get rid of Saddam himself, we had to show a strong and resolute response to 911, we wanted to stir up the region to get the various factions chattering with each other and out into the open so we could see what we were up against, and most importantly we needed to establish a footprint in that area - Saddam's was a shaky Sunni-minority regime in a majority Shiite country which he was able to maintain only by murdering tens of thousands of his own countrymen every year in a reign of terror - he had survived one war with Iran with our help , but after Kuwait and especially his defiance of the cease-fire terms such as violating the no-fly zone and maintaining WMD, we were not going to help him in the next war - without Bush's intervention by now Iraq probably would have ben gobbled up by Iran, Saddam's regime gone, and we still would have had ISIS, formed from the exiled brutal remains of Saddam's army and thugs, except that it would have migrated further north and to far off places like Yemen. Ms. whatshername should be thankful for what Bush did, but at nineteen she has a lot to learn.....

[sport]

And will never learn it.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Not if she keeps talking to the likes of Chrissy....

[rejoicing]

Insanity or dementia?

[scripter]

Thanks. It was a lot of work to put that together but well worth it.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

how the heck did Assad get hold of so many chemical weapons in Syria.

Americans sold it to him, that's how.

[teeman8r]

I also remember him saying that the invasion was for reasons of UN violations and the possibility of him having wmd... Not wmd alone.

[BwanaNdege]

I have just saved your research as an MS Word document.

“The Little People” Hillary encounters on the campaign trail need to read some of her quotes back to her (on camera), then ask her, “Were you wrong THEN, wrong NOW or do you just say whatever seems politically expedient at the moment?”

[TigersEye]

I’ve always liked their roast beef sandwiches.

I was going to tell you not to give the MSM any help but
they wouldn’t know what you’re talking about anyway.