Posted on 10/07/2004 6:31:27 AM PDT by NotchJohnson
IRAQ HAD NO STOCKPILES...SO WHAT?
The media and the Democrats, along with The Poodle's campaign are all excited about Charles Duelfer's testimony in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee. His verdict? There are no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Big whoop...why is this really news? Haven't we been hearing this for over a year?
The headlines all say the same thing...CIA adviser says Iraq had no banned weapons since 1991...no WMD in Iraq...and so on. The implication is essentially 'Bush lied, people died.' This is where media bias comes in big-time...as some of the stories showed. After all, bad news for Bush is good news for Kerry...and the media. But really, what we have here is old news.
It's been known since the report from David Kaye that nobody could find any stockpiles of WMD in Iraq. It's just not news. But what's also interesting in this case, is that some of the other more important testimony by Duelfer is being ignored. For instance, Saddam did not abandon his nuclear ambitions, he merely put them on hold. As soon as the heat was off, he was going to start making nuclear weapons. He had the ability and the desire.
Let's talk about biological weapons. Duelfer testified that Iraq could have restarted its program and produced mustard agent in months, and nerve agent in less than a year. So Saddam wasn't a threat, huh? All he would have had to do is restart that program, and sell some of that nerve agent to an Islamic terrorist.
What the Democrats would have done, had they been in power, would have been to wait until Saddam did just that. They would have waited until he posed an even greater threat to the world, the region and his neighbors before they did anything. So they didn't find any stockpiles...who cares? The dictator is out of power, is no longer a threat to the rest of the world, is no longer killing and torturing his own people, and will never produce weapons of mass destruction again. Iraq was a terrorist state, and we took action.
Al-Qaeda doesn't have any WMD stockpiles either...should we look the other way there? I think not
Saddam was a wart on humanity, and we applied the Compound W.
Maybe he used the majority of it on the Iranians and Kurds?
Ask the Kurds and Iranians what they think of Shoe-Shine Boy and his little ole supply of nerve gas!
I'm not gonna waste my day in a pissing contest with you.
I have a lot of German in me, but thank God I'm not a present day German national that would have left Sodom Insane in Iraq and that supports keeping a Muhammadan Union of States in place to cater to Expansionist Muhammadan Islamocommiefascism on the march (just like the Euroweasels).
I still see the 1972 German capitulation in Munich to Muhammadans in 2004 Germany...nothing's changed much.
America's a relative Left Wing mess to a very large degree. But we have people that will to make good happen to triumph over evil and we aren't lay down quitters.
That's what Germany is to me on the War against Muhammadan Jihadis...
And now they never will!! Heh, heh, heh, heh...
How about the artillery shells that were used as IEDs? They had WMDs in them, correct?
I understand completely that reflexively defending "Germany" against imagined slights is part of your agenda but that doesn't make it any less irrelevant or diversionary to the topic on the table, or any more appropriate for you to have responded so defensively to my post #34, in the process completely missing and misrepresenting its point, in the first place.
The military has another term for the "flypaper" tactic. "Kill box".
The enemy is lured into the "kill box" to be more easily dealt with.
It's like the "Roach Motel" - "They check in, but they don't check out".
George Bush declared that Iran, Iraq and North Korea were part of an "axis of evil" during his State of the Union speech, in January, 2002.
Iran is suspected as being a state sponsor of terrorism, it is believed that there are plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq is suspected of wanting to develop nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
North Korea has caused concern because of its missile and other weapon programmes, and its apparant willingness to export sensitive technology.
In May, 2002, Bush added three more countries to his list: Cuba, Libya, and Syria.
Cuba is suspected of having at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development programme, and has provided dual-use technology to other "rogue states".
Let's see .... Iraq and Lybia are down, so who's next?
My bet is Iran. After Iran is neutralized/marginalized, Syria and Cuba will go the way of Lybia, and "see the light", too... if they know what's good for them.
Of course this is all predicated on the terrorist's nightmare coming true - President Bush being re-elected.
To most of your post: Bump. (I will not comment your thoughts about Dems, because this forbids me my agenda of not interfering too much into US politics)
Still, it gives a bad feeling, and I will stay by my imagination that this war was fought unnecessarily early, considering the preparations of the after-war-time and the preparations of the (international) public. Nobody wants to be fooled.
I was not challenging most of your post #34, just the part which was injust to my country.
Best to you,
Michael
Germany=co-Chair of the Axis of Weasels
I don't think he cut their hands off, I think he killed them.
mostly yes. our president was visited by a couple survivors
who lost their hands to Saddam's henchmen.
Lucky they didn't get put through a shredder or get dismantled by a pack of dogs.
This guy obviously hasn't lost any kids in Iraq, sent there because we were told Saddam was an imminent threat who had WMDs.
Those were GWB's words at the time he made his axis of evil declarations.
You may double check, if you like.
Glad to see you're consistently French-German European...
I know, it was for emphasis in light of current knowledge...
Hands, ears, tongues, penises, tesicles, fingers, toes, heads, arms, legs - and then the shredders - oh, and don't forget the mass graves with bullet ridden bodies and gassed victims...I have reams of testimony and evidence.
Sodom and Hitler would've gotten along well...about as well as, say, Schroeder and ChIraq do now...
...with a spicy touch of Spanturd...
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