Posted on 11/07/2025 12:40:14 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
https://babylonbee.com/news/with-cheney-dead-iraq-finally-admits-they-had-wmds-all-along
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.
Now, Iraqi officials said they had WMDs all along.
"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.
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.
We certainly had the receipts for the stuff we sold Hussein when he was fighting Iran, but the idea that he had WMDs that posed a threat to us was never anything more than neocon propaganda.
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.
Thanks for the info that WMD is not in Congressional resolutions. What about the declaration of war?
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."Remarks" =“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.
It appears that a swipe deleted a paragraph.
If the last statement of my post seems odd, that’s the reason.
Anyone with knowledge of the facts can fill in the blanks on their own.
Resolution 678 used the term “to restore international peace and security in the area”. This is the same language the US and the UN agreed authorized UN forces to invade North Korea. China and Russia could have demanded language to expel Iraq from Kuwait but did not. Resolutions 687 and 1441 incorporated 678 without amendment.
Resolution 678 used the term “to restore international peace and security in the area”. This is the same language the US and the UN agreed authorized UN forces to invade North Korea. China and Russia could have demanded language to expel Iraq from Kuwait but did not. Resolutions 687 and 1441 incorporated 678 without amendment.
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.
Under Bush the UN inspectors were forced to become investigators as the regime evaded their responsibilities. Then under Clinton inspectors were thrown out. Either the UN caves or the coalition invades.
Nonsense.
That is precisely the WMD we went in for and was also transferred to their fellow Baathists in Syria.
Your post is proof positive that Dems continue to OWN the epistemic sphere such as colleges and universities.
Rest assured that until that changes Trump will by 2029 be demonized in precisely the false terms you are ascribing to Powell and Cheney.
I hope you have a Saddam Hussein poster up on your wall at home. You clearly miss the man terribly.
And no we did not sell him the gas components. This is again a fantastic lie spun up by code pink and fools like Dan Rather.
Saddam and his government were part of the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. He was the only sovereign ever known to use chemical weapons on civilians. He was involved in a wide array of anti American activities that would certainly allow his wmd materials to end up with an array of terrorist actors.
He shot at American military aircraft on a monthly basis.
The CIA gave the intelligence to Colin Powell and told him that it was credible.
Interesting.
Why did Colin Powell himself state that his UN speech was a "blot on his record"?
This simply isn't true.
We knew all about the gas. We knew he was using it on the Iranians and we knew he was using it on his civilian population.
We knew this at the time, and we continued to provide him with military support.
I'm sorry.
I live in country whose government has lied to me repeatedly.
This isn't a political point; it's a fact. We were lied to about WMDs, we were lied to about Covid, we were lied to about the safety and efficacy of the Covid jabs, you name it.
If you lost a loved one in that war and you need to tell yourself something to ease the loss, I can understand your position, but I can't support it.
I know that this is The Greatest Country in the World and all that, but your government lies to you.
Smithsonian author:
Colin Schultz is a freelance science writer and editor based in Toronto, Canada. He blogs for Smart News and contributes to the American Geophysical Union. He has a B.Sc. in physical science and philosophy, and a M.A. in journalism.
Part of the entire scam. He is the Big Lie guy
All of it is to make all Republican presidents trash.
Three years from now you and the gangs will post similar big lies about the bombing of Iran and what a neo con CON Trump pulled on us.
I’m not fooled for one second. Saddam was a threat and acted on it as much as he could. Iran was a threat and they killed U.S. troops as much as they could.
The world is full of real threats and the faux tucker conservative crowd aligned with the faux Rand Paul aligned with the scam code pink does not fool me for one second.
I’m glad Saddam is gone. I’m glad Iran got bombed. I look forward to more threats getting beat into the sands as time goes by.
Oh. An emotional thinker...
Have a good night.
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