Posted on 03/07/2023 6:30:52 PM PST by NetAddicted
There were several dozen examples of the Iraqis getting caught with materials that they had not declared, and then *some* of those materials being destroyed. There was still a long list of materials which had been declared, tagged, and not yet destroyed when the inspectors were thrown out. That is largely the list Colin Powell read from at the U.N.
I provided references for them finding them even under Clinton, and multiple people pointed out the shells found in caches. It is you clinging to your ignorance here.
I told you clearly what wasn’t found. And the Bush Administration comments you made were not about whether they existed or not, but about whether to make it a line of argument during the campaign. While they did find chemical weapons, they did not find them in the quantities expected - but they also didn’t find positively confirmed chemical weapons stocks that had been there before Iraq threw the inspectors out.
There are, for example, quite a number of people that accepted that Iraq had chemical weapons and still opposed the war, and more who came to view it that way.
May God rest this man’s soul....
“Bush removed a terrorist haven in Afghanistan from which an attack on America had been planned; his removal of Saddam Hussein resulted in Iran’s suspending its nuclear program and Libya giving up its own. It is doubtful that would have happened while the United States “waited.” And what we are witnessing in the Middle East today is something that may have started with Internet pictures of Iraqis voting with purple fingers in real elections.”
—Commentary Podcast
See above from Commentary...
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