BAGHDAD — Following the death of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, Iraqi government officials finally admitted they actually did have weapons of mass destruction this whole time.

"It is true," Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told the press. "We have been having the weapons for all these many years. We were... how you say... just messing with you. Funny, yes?"

Cheney and then-President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq in 2003 based in part on intel about the Saddam Hussein regime producing and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction in the country. An extensive investigation later turned up no evidence of WMDs, landing a blow to the credibility of the Bush administration.

"Hahahahaha," Hassan continued. "We hid them underground and Saddam told us to keep telling the Americans there were none, and it worked! Those dummies. Now that Mr. Dick is dead, we can say they really do exist. We have so many. I'm not sure any of them work, and I think some are made of plaster and newspaper, but there they are. The joke is being on you, America."

At publishing time, Senator Lindsey Graham had called for an all-out military assault on Iraq.

Saddam did have WMDs. We found them. Bush lied, not about Saddam having WMDs but about not having found them.

The NY Slimes ran with the story in 2014, detailing the injuries to US servicemen who were injured when they chanced across the caches of mustard agent and sarin. The Slimes later published the US intelligence report on the events, released under FOIA. It's even been noted on Wikipedia that "the total number of munitions discovered since 2003 had climbed to 4,990...."

The Daily Beast later reported that Bush administration insiders claimed that it was Carl Rove's idea to cover up having found the weapons.

Wake up, smell the bacon and stop spreading demoncrat LIES.

Cheney and Bush obeyed the mandate given by the UN to launch an invasion of Iraq in 2003. The possession of WMD was irrelevant. The ceasefire ended, and the war begun in 1991 was resumed in 2003, because Hussein behaved in material breach of international obligations as reaffirmed with UN Resolution 1441. Nowhere in Congressional resolutions of 1991, 1998 and 2002, or UN Resolutions 678, 687 and 1441 can one see possession of stockpiles of WMD as reasons for confronting him with military action. Emerging behaviors in terms of threats, evasion, intimidation, and continuing past actions; not possession was always the key. He was to unconditionally accept destruction or removal of all inventories and programs for WMD and for all missiles over 150-kilometre range. He was enjoined from committing, supporting, or providing safe haven for international terrorism.

None of these resolutions were cobbled together like a middle schooler’s term paper. Diplomats and politicians laboriously parsed each phrase for clear focus on actions instead of possessions; behaviors, not stockpiles.

I will never understand why the administration did not keep hammering on words in the UN resolutions.

UN Security Council Resolution 678

http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/678

UN Security Council Resolution 687

http://unscr.com/en/resolutions/687

UN Security Council Resolution 1441

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/478123?v=pdf

That’s pure nonsense on both ends of your statement.

As I always say

If Saddam never had them then let the thousands of dead Kurdish children and women gassed with the so called human insecticides rise from their graves.

Our own after war counts showed he had dozens of illegal wmd. His own generals say they shipped even more of the weapons to Syria while the anti bush stupid anti neocon cons dithered.

I hope you have a Saddam poster up at home.

Cheney and Bush obeyed the mandate given by the UN to launch an invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Thanks for posting that in open forum.

I'm just going to let that percolate.

FOREVER.

In contrast with my rebuttal (the facts):

Stories from the UN Archive: The presentation that launched a war

On 5 February 2003, Mr. Powell addressed a packed Council Chamber, laying out the case for the US invasion of Iraq the following month.
“Every statement I make today is backed up by solid sources,” he said. “What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions. Clearly, Saddam Hussein and his regime will stop at nothing until something stops him.”
During the hour-long multimedia presentation, the Secretary of State narrated a detailed video and slideshow of satellite images, audio recordings of intercepted phone calls and illustrations showing, among other things, trucks and train cars allegedly serving as mobile production facilities for biological agents in Iraq.
At the heart of the US’s arguments was the claim that Mr. Hussein was determined to keep his WMDs and to make more, including anthrax, a biological agent.
Raising a tiny vial containing a beige powder-like substance, Mr. Powell explained: “Less than a teaspoon of dry anthrax…about this amount… shut down the United States Senate in the fall of 2001.”
“Saddam Hussein has not verifiably accounted for even one teaspoonful of this deadly material,” he went on to say, still dangling the vial with an unknown substance from his fingertips. “Iraqis have never accounted for all of the biological weapons they admitted they had. This is evidence, not conjecture.”
The Council did not act on what was presented, and there was no resolution authorizing military action in Iraq.
A little more than a month after that meeting, the US invaded the Middle Eastern country.
Two months later, the Security Council-mandated UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) presented its own findings on Iraq in a report. The Commission did not find evidence of the continuation or resumption of programmes of weapons of mass destruction or significant quantities of proscribed items.
Mr. Powell later stated that he regretted these remarks.

"Remarks" =

LIES.

gw cheerleaders - and gwb himself - can kiss my white backside - and worse - because this set us up for the greatest crime in history, 9/11.

If Saddam never had them then let the thousands of dead Kurdish children and women gassed with the so called human insecticides rise from their graves.

We knew all about the gas; this wasn't what we went to war over. (We had been selling him components to make the gas during his war with Iran.)

We went to war over weapons that were so fictitious that Colin Powell had to appear before the UN with computer renditions of what they were alleged to have looked like, for the simple reason that there was not a single example of one that could be found.

Cheney should have been hauled off to the Hague in handcuffs for his role in that war.

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