Bush, Cheney Concede Saddam Had No WMDs

Yahooo via AP ^ | 10/7/04

[goldstategop]

Yes, he could have. We know for a fact he used chemical weapons against the Iranians and the Kurds back in the 80s. We know he built a nuclear plant at Osirak that was going to process enriched uranium for a bomb until the Israelis took it out. You can be sure Saddam would have shared the know-how and technology with terrorists. We couldn't afford to wait til he had WMD for by then it would have been too late. President Bush acted to keep this country safe and that's the only judgment I trust, not some bureaucrat's attempts to rewrite history a mere four weeks before the election.

[goldstategop]

Yeah, Iraq played games and acted like they had something dangerous. Given the country was a totalitarian society, it would have been irresponsible to act other than to conclude Saddam's regime harbored hostile designs against the United States and its allies. We know Saddam invaded his neighbors twice. And he threatened to employ WMD against us when we came to the rescue of occupied Kuwait. I don't have to draw for an entire list of details to demonstrate the legitimacy of this war and the soundness of its rationale. The dangers were gathering and the President did the only thing a man in his position charged with protecting this country did. It is an act for which he owes no apology.

[Arnold Zephel]

I knew I recognized that name. Why is this man allowed to keep his job as a "hard news" journalist? Shouldn't he be considered an editorialist? It is obvious to anyone with a brain that he has a partisan polictical agenda. Sean Hannity or Ann Coulter would never be considered as "hard news" journalist, why is it this man can be considered one?

If Kerry does manage to win this election he will owe it all to the MSM.

[cyncooper]

Maybe if the President held more news conferences, he could get his message out. By avoiding them, he is losing a huge advantage of talking directly to the people.

Clinton had one every other day

Clinton did not have one every other day.

This very article is based on President Bush's comments today so it doesn't seem your complaint stands up to scrutiny.

Now, does this extreme propaganda the media is engaging in need to be fought and he needs to ratchet up his appearances to speak directly to the people? Yes! We agree on that.

[goldstategop]

If President Bush had acted like Neville Chamberlain, I can't but feel that same bureaucrat would have come to the opposite conclusion today. <sarcasm

[cyncooper]

Why did the White House let this stuff out now and not after the election?

The report justifies the war.

[steveegg]

Like I said; once again, the AP refuses to dig further than necessary to spew out "Bush lied", even when even the most-rudementary digging would give the lie to that.

[goldstategop]

Precisely. Everything in the history of Saddam's regime and his character told us he would not hesistate to use WMD against us. He already used them against the Iranians and the Kurds. He launched Scuds against Israel. We had an adversary whose intentions were menacing and who showed no regards for international law or morality would serve as a restraint on his ambitions. All of these are facts recorded by history. No less than Bill Clinton was sure about them. A single report does NOT change anything about what Saddam could do in the future and which I'm glad we made sure he can't have the means to do NOW. That is all that matters, when all is said and done.

[goldstategop]

Yes... the UN itself is complicit in helping Saddam to evade the sanctions that might have contained him and averted war. An issue the Michael Moore Left in America overlooks.

[goldstategop]

A negative does NOT prove the absence of a positive. We have a genuine mystery and this is one issue that may never be definitely settled to any one's satisfaction. DUH.

[bray]

The only reason we know he had no WMD is because we went in and searched for them. Otherwise we would still be assuming he was hiding them. I'm glad he didn't and doesn't!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[goldstategop]

If President Bush wants to lose this election by NOT decisively defending the Iraq War, well it will be his fault. I'm not retreating and wavering in my conviction it was the right thing to do then and the right thing to do now.

[rodguy911]

Here are several reasons that should justify going in to take out Sadaam.

1. We acted on the info given us by CIA chief Tenant. He was a Clinton appointee. He screwed Bush. Gave him erroneous info. Initially he produced a few photos,and when questioned by bush "is that all" stated that "Iraq having WMD's was a slam dunk". He lied. He's gone. Based on info from CIA and Tenant we should have gone into Iraq.

2. We have had threads here on FR that documents trucks hauling WMD's or suspected poisonous gas beingn trucked into Syria.

3.Once you have the formula to produce chem weapons it is not rocket science to do so. Saddam could have restarted a chem weapon program almost anytime if he could get rid of the UN. inspectors

4.Nuclear weapons are WMD's. Saddam conspired with N. Korea,and Lybia to build 5 nuc's, also well documented here on FR and would have done so had they not been caught. Witness the collapse of Qaddafi.

5.We know Sadaam courted terrorists who hated us. He courted them actively. He had a mock-up plane, a 707 or other, that was used to train terrorists in Iraq,

That's all I could come up with on short notice. But there is plenty more.

[FesterUSMC]

President Bush acted to keep this country safe and that's the only judgment I trust, not some bureaucrat's attempts to rewrite history a mere four weeks before the election.

My thoughts exactly, I would vote fr Dukakis before i would vote for Kerry! LOL At least Dukakis didn't call the troops war criminals... that i know of...

[goldstategop]

Good work. All of this disappears down the rabbit hole. Is the mainstream media rehabilitating Saddam now to help defeat President Bush? I wouldn't put it past them, especially after C-BS was caught using faked documents to cast doubt on the President's TANG service. The media is Kerry transcript service and they will go all out to help him until Election Day. If they have to lie about what went on in Iraq, so be it. Its not like C-BS' conduct is going to stop them.

[rodguy911]

"Is the mainstream media rehabing Saddam"

Of course! They(the MSM) will do "anything" to get their boy in, including selling out the country(if you are a globalist who cares) if thats what it takes..A scary bunch. I listened to Rush today and they had a guy on who documented we have caught over 3,000 terrorists since 911 in 30, yes "30" different countries. This is a true war on terror and Iraq is only the staging point, not the end point. And we did have more than good evidence to go in. We have nothing to worry about if GW will make some of these points on Friday and bring up f'ing's non-record in congress for 20 years.

[goldstategop]

Here is a nugget the liberal media will hide from the public :

Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability—in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks—but he intended to focus on ballistic missile and tactical chemical warfare (CW) capabilities.

This is the key right here. Saddam would have restarted his WMD program. As soon as sanctions were lifted he would have proceeded with them and the report itself noted the UN sanctions had collapsed by the end of 1999. One can in fact make a good argument the Duefler report bolsters rather than undermines the central premise of the Iraq War. But you wouldn't know that from the way the partisan media has mentioned the report, including omitting highlighting this critical and key sentence.

[CThomasFan]

GOT IT. Thanks.
I pasted them all together and am trying to figure out how to send it to the entire earth.

[rodguy911]

Good find. I don't know what it will take to ever get a righteous press here again. Maybe it will never happen.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

I agree with you completely. But we may be trying to convince a DEMOCRAT administration to stay the course come January.

I hope I'm overreacting.