[areafiftyone]

Boy does the media love spinning this around and around.

[rocksblues]

I'll believe he didn't have WMD on 11/03/04 and Kerry is the incumbent!

[RasterMaster]

Because Saddam buried, sold off, or otherwise smuggled weapons out of Iraq doesn't necessarily mean he had no WMDs. I prefer Rudy's convention speech: "Saddam (and sons) was a WALKING, TALKING WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION".

[My2Cents]

I will repeat (for about the 50th time today on FR) that David Kay reported a year ago that Saddam had the infrastructure, the scientific and technical expertise, the growth media and precursor chemicals, and the will to reconstitute his WMD program. Duelfer's report leads to the conclusion that had Saddam not been toppled by the US-led coalition last year, the UN sanctions on Saddam's Iraq would likely have been lifted by now, Saddam would still be in power, and he'd currently be aggressively pursuing WMDs. The media ignores all of this.

[mtbopfuyn]

The AP should try selling that line to whatever remaining relatives of those in mass graves.

[tomnbeverly]

Did John Kerry really say you don't make up things to go to war about after the fact? Has he fully conceded that we would be better off with Sadaam in power did he not read the entire report? John Kerry is nuts...I voted for the war because I believed there were WMD's... now that there are no WMD's I have no excuse for my vote and I will not take comfort in the fact that it was the right thing to do knowing everything that is in this report....

John Kerry needs to console with the sell out Jaques Chirac... I say we need to go to war with France...

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Saddam gassed the Kurds. We know he had WMD.

[dandelion]

Man alive, talk about BIASED AS HELL. The AP doesn't even begin to come close to objective - so why should we?

Blog on, might army of the pajamajadeen...

[steveegg]

You just have to LOVE the headline writes over at AllPoop who focus on a laser on one item while completely ignoring everything else.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Earlier today I heard some report on FOX News that said Saddam didn't have scud missiles and I thought "what the hell was that that slammed into that shopping mall in Kuwait City then?"

[ladyinred]

I will never believe he didn't have them. I do think he stashed them in Syria or somewhere in the leadup to the invasion however. This is all to get Kerry elected.

[savedbygrace]

"The Duelfer report showed that Saddam was systematically gaming the system, using the U.N. oil-for-food program to try to influence countries and companies in an effort to undermine sanctions," Bush said as he prepared to fly to campaign events in Wisconsin. "He was doing so with the intent of restarting his weapons program once the world looked away."

From this they conclude that President Bush is saying the OFF program is the reason we attacked Iraq? What a gigantic leap that is.

He is saying that Saddam fooled the world into believing he had WMD, and then bribed many into helping to delay the gathering storm against him.

[Arnold Zephel]

The MSM is in full "jihad mode" and will stop at nothing in an attempt to discredit President Bush. They no longer make any pretense of being objective and non-partisan.

I just hope that the majority of voters can avoid motion sickness from all the spinning and vote according to the facts and not spin.

[DTogo]

And if the US had invaded Afghanistan in August 2001, routed the Taliban, found nothing, but 9-11 never occurred...??

Darn. We should have waited 'til the coerced and bribed UNSC abandoned sanctions, Saddam reconstituted his WMD, gave them to Al Qaeda who then kills another 3000 Americans somewhere, and then we'll attack Iraq. But first, we'd still have to pass the Global Test.

[FesterUSMC]

but that he had no capability of making any either

THE REPORT SAID HE HAD THE CAPABILITY

[crazyhorse691]

John Kerry shot back: "You don't make up or find reasons to go to war after the fact..........."
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John Kerry shot back: "You don't make up or find reasons after the fact if you are a Republican. That is the job of Democrats."

[ottothedog]

So how can the media say that Saddam had no chemical weapons when this happened in May.

Fox News

[Ironfocus]

I have a couple of observations here:
1. What happened to the 20,000 liters of Anthrax and other weapons that was never accounted for, is there anything about that in the report? Saddam was manic about documenting everything, surely he would have documented how and where he destroyed that if he did so?
2. The french joker has a new line: "we should have let the inspectors finish." I think that the US sniffed something was up with the Oil for Weapons program, and knew that the UN inspectors would not do anything to incriminate Saddam. So, Mr Joker, how exactly did you want the inspections to continue?

[Jorge]

He's claiming I misled America about weapons when he, himself, cited the very same intelligence about Saddam weapons programs as the reason he voted to go to war," Bush said.

Kerry was a total hawk on the Iraq war, and now is pretending only Bush said these things.

Kerry is so dishonest and two-faced about this it literally makes me sick to my stomach listening to him. God help us if this creep BS's his way into the White House.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Better safe than sorry.

[TheDon]

"Concede"? Oh yeah, I forgot about the Demorat spin that the invasion was because we knew they had WMDs, instead of because we didn't know if they had WMDs.

The MSM is in full court press mode for their man, JFK.