Posted on 05/12/2014 6:06:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
War veteran Joni Ernst claims to have vague, secret knowledge that contradicts every public report.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Iowa state senator and US Senate candidate Joni Ernst captured national attention when her campaign's first TV ad featured the candidate talking about castrating hogs (a subsequent ad featured Ernst at a gun range, implying that she'd shoot Obamacare to bits). But if the Sarah Palin-approved Republican wants to enter national politics, she may need to brush up on some of her facts. Ernst still thinks Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction when the US invaded Iraq, despite all evidence pointing to the contrary.
On Friday, Ernst sat down with the Des Moines Register's editorial board for a wide-ranging interview. Ernst served in the Iraq War in 2003, "running convoys through Kuwait and into southern Iraq" according to her campaign website. She defended that war during the interview, saying that the intelligence at the time offered compelling reason to displace Saddam. "Obviously the president thought there was actionable intelligence, she said, "so as an Iraqi War veteran I stand beside that and I'll stand beside every other soldier I served with in believing we were on a clearly defined mission to go into Iraq." (Her response in the video above starts at the 23:20 mark.)
Why is Ernst so willing to support Bush's decision to invade? She hints that she has inside knowledge that there were, indeed, still weapons of mass destruction when the war began. "We don't know that there were weapons on the ground when we went in," she said, "however, I do have reason to believe there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." When a Register reporter quizzed her on what information she has, Ernst said "my husband served in Saudi Arabia as the Army Central Command sergeant major for a year and that's a hot-button topic in that area."
Of course, US troops never managed to find any such weapons after the invasion. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld have all conceded that the initial intelligence was flawed.
When asked for clarification, a spokesperson for Ernst's campaign narrowly walked back her comments over e-mail: "Her point was that we know for a fact that Iraq had chemical weapons in the past, and had even used them. We also know none were found while our troops were on the ground, despite the intelligence at the time. What happened to those weapons she doesn't know."
Ernst currently holds a slight lead in the polls in advance of the June 3 primary. If she managed to win the general election—Democrat Bruce Braley is the front-runner for the open seat—Ernst would be the first woman elected to federal office from Iowa.
“Of course, US troops never managed to find any such weapons after the invasion.”
Keep repeating a lie enough times and idiots will believe it. They did find some but it was dismissed ads “pre-gulf war WMD” or “not militarily ready WMD”
From liberal factcheck.org:
“and discovered only a few random chemical weapons.”
So which is it? “never found any” or “only found a few”?
David Corn’s rag ripping a woman who could whip every testosterone challenge dope smoking male on their staff....
That’s cool. Just get ready to pronounce it correctly, punks: “Senator Joni Ernst”.
The Iraq War Resolution, which gave George Bush the authority for military force against Iraq had 23 paragraphs. Only 4 mentioned WMD, and that is all anyone talks about.
The other 19 were more than sufficient given that Iraq had signed and agreed to the terms of an armistice in 1991.
Another guy named Adolph Hitler was not held to the terms of an armistice (even when he was relatively weak when he violated those terms) signed by his nation and we can see where THAT got us.
550 Metric Tons of yellowcake uranium removed from Iraq
What are the chances that they'd refuse to investigate, and even outright lie to make George Bush look bad?
Well, the leftists in the Democrat party won’t believe Israel...you remember how the loudly booed the Jews at their convention?
That FACT was omitted from most newscasts, as it casts a true and shining light on the Democrat party: anti-Semites and God haters.
Prosperous?
BTT
There WERE WMDs in Iraq!
Well leftists are good at ignoring the facts..they won’t say where Assad’s weapons came from because then they would have to admit that Saddam DID have weapons of mass destruction, would destroy their whole narrative
I worked with eapons and even the fact that they really didn’t find a massive cache of weapons there is a difference in comparing weapons. Chemical weapons are not built like regular bombs and such their size is not in giant dumb bombs and missles but just that a little chemicals can go a long way. Remeber when Chohen and the 5 lb. bag of sugar he used when he was Clinton’s Sec. of state.
Why were advanced Mig aircraft found buried in the sand in Iraq? What else might have been buried or secreted somewhere?
Syria was known to have it’s own chemical weapons program for decades before we invaded Iraq. I’m not saying they didn’t also get some from Saddam, just that they already had them.
I agree. And you know who ELSE agreed?
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
John F. Kerry
And the multitudes of democrats who voted for the Iraq war.
You know, the ones who looked at the intelligence available to them.
"Saddam had WMDs on the day I left office."-Bill Clinton.
When the Left has to disparage the words of a leftist like Bill Clinton, you KNOW they are on thin ice.
Not only that, it was Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller who was the first to call Iraq “an imminent threat”.
It is a classic case of the LIEberals telling a lie over and over again until it become accepted “Truth”.
The Bush Administration had, but did not release, information proving that Saddam had WMDs. I have no idea why.
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