These Kurds didn't think Saddam Hussein was lying about having nerve gas.
Posted on 12/15/2011 12:30:38 PM PST by DBCJR
...Tom Brokaw recounted some of the rationale behind why the Bush administration believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction before the invasion of Iraq, even noting that President Clinton had also believed in the presense of WMD.
Brokaw related evidence that the Iraqi dictator had tried to deceive Iran into believing he possessed WMD, and noted that the people of Iraq lived in "sheer terror" and were afraid to talk to the NBC anchor when he visited the country during Saddam Hussein's reign.
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My post quotes numerous democrats on the subject of WMD.
When did these Democrats start telling the truth?
If I didn't believe their lies back then, why should I start believing them now?
We did not even find some of the weapons that were identified after Desert Storm, so where is it? I believe a lot of the WMDs were shipped out of the country prior to the OIF invasion.
Yes. Those honest Democrats. Why would they lie?
Do you also believe the stories about Iraqi soldiers dumping Kuwaiti infants from their incubators?
Yes, they fell into al Qaeda’s hands. That was one of the most shocking revelations in the book. A beautiful story of courage as well, as the two soldiers in his story watched out for each other at great personal risk. How anyone can go on ignoring the evidence at this point is beyond me.
These Kurds didn't think Saddam Hussein was lying about having nerve gas.
Everyone ‘thought’ well except the inspectors who actually looked.
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I put all that information together because my liberal friends denied their democrat leaders ever claimed WMD existed.
Perhaps the Ol' in your screen name implies you're too f'ing stupid to understand the context of the original article because you're way f'ing off base. Now go back to being an asshole.
Thanks. I actually Googled it hoping to find what it meant.
If Hussein was insane why did the Reagan Administration sell the nerve gas in the first place?
You are insane and a liar to boot. Reagan never gave VX to Iraqi
s dipsh6t.
Thanks for the post!
The post also didn't attempt to verify the veracity of what they were saying. Instead, like the useful idiots occupying the democrap party, you breathlessly repeated them.
Since you're a lover of Democrap quotes, how about adding this to your list of "honest" Democraps:
"The Duelfer report is yet another example that there really are two Americas," said Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. "There's the one that exists in the Bush fantasy world, and then there's the real America. In the Bush fantasy world, they still claim that Iraq was an imminent threat with weapons of mass destruction."
In 2002, Bush described the Iraq threat saying, "It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons."
He also said, "We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas."
And, "Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles — far enough to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and other nations — in a region where more than 135,000 American civilians and service members live and work."
I also notice there's no quotes from the Duelfer report:
In his report, Duelfer concluded that Saddam's Iraq had no stockpiles of the banned weapons.
"It appears that he did not vigorously pursue those programs after the inspectors left," a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity, ahead of the report's Wednesday afternoon release by the CIA.
U.S. officials also said the report shows Saddam was much farther away from a nuclear weapons program in 2003 than he was between 1991 and 1993; there is no evidence that Iraq and Al Qaeda exchanged weapons; and there is no evidence that Al Qaeda and Iraq shared information, technology or personnel in developing weapons.
Lastly, why not quote directly from your he-ro Bush, himself?
President George W. Bush: "The main reason we went into Iraq at the time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn't."
Perhaps the Ol' in your screen name implies you're too f'ing stupid to understand the context of the original article because you're way f'ing off base. Now go back to being an asshole.
I'm not the one uncritically quoting the lies of Democraps and left-wing propaganda organs like PBS. Only useful idiots or just plain ol' idiots, like yourself, do that.
I didn’t finish reading your post as I see you’re back to being an asshole as you misrepresent and try to put words in my mouth. I can only hope you have a shorter life for being such an ass. Farewell, asshole.
Good grief, Saddam ADMITTED to having WMD. He even documented the types and quantities. He signed an agreement attesting to that and agreeing to full disclosure in disposing of those WMD.
I read a lot about WMD but I never heard Saddam admitted to having WMD. From everything I have read it appears obvious he had WMD. Do you have a source for Saddam admitting it? A cursory search didn’t find anything.
True, but he thought it was an STD.
They didn’t. It was French. An American company that sold a possible precursor was prosecuted.
Nice revisionist history slam on Reagan, too bad you don’t have any actual evidence to back it up.
There is an itemized list somewhere. I will try to find it.
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