White House Says Iraq Weapons Search Over

AP ^ | January 12, 2005 | AP

[rightinthemiddle]

They should convene the panel in Syria.

[epluribus_2]

Why won't anyone in the media state the obvious - Saddam picked a bad time to *** BLUFF *** the west. He wanted us desperately to believe that he was a serious threat. It worked, since our guys had to where the moon suits on the way in. Oh, and by the way - the war was completely justified on the basis of breaches in the 91 war ceasefire.

[rohtol]

How many people to Saddam kill ?

[1LongTimeLurker]

Why won't anyone in the media state the obvious - Saddam picked a bad time to *** BLUFF *** the west. He wanted us desperately to believe that he was a serious threat. It worked, since our guys had to where the moon suits on the way in. Oh, and by the way - the war was completely justified on the basis of breaches in the 91 war ceasefire.

Read the jailhouse interviews with Saddam, he wasn't bluffing us, he was bluffing Iran. He thought we really knew that he didn't have anything and that his government had been infiltrated by the U.S. His mistake was in overestimating the capabilities of the CIA. Funny, someone else made that mistake recently. :-)

[nyg4168]

Well, it looks like we screwed up. There weren't any WMD. I'm going to catch hell for saying this, but I think it would be a good idea for Colin Powell to go back to the UN and said, "We were wrong. We'll try to do better next time." (Colin's on his way out anyway, so he can take the fall on the world stage.) I think it's always best to admit your mistakes rather than try to hide them. Trying to hide them just makes you both wrong and dishonest.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Nice play by the US. Declare nothing there and see what Syria does.

The Bush WH will be criticized either way.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Nice play by the US. Declare nothing there and see what Syria does.

The Bush WH will be criticized either way.

[mvpel]

I wish one of these jokers would dare to try to explain to the residents of Halabja that Saddam's nerve gas was just a figment of their imagination.

[kingattax]

bingo......thats probably where they were moved to. anyone that has the notion that the WMDs were never in iraq needs to lay off the wacky weed. saddam had them moved, bet on it.

[Destro]

"Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either."

That translates into no Iraqi WMD existed to go to Syria.

[Destro]

"Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either."

That translates into no Iraqi WMD existed to go to Syria.

[Destro]

"Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either."

The use of nerve and chemical attacks were before Gulf War 1.

[A CA Guy]

They were given all those months to move it to Syria and other places. It's not like they never existed.

[Destro]

"Duelfer reported then that Saddam Hussein not only had no weapons of mass destruction and had not made any since 1991, but that he had no capability of making any either."

That translates into no Iraqi WMD existed to go to Syria. You can no longer say the WMD went to Syria.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Won't happen. As far as catching hell goes, you are a newbie, (12-29-04) we will give you a pass.

[A CA Guy]

They just so happened to have large pristeen chemical labs in several places in Iraq to just make swimming pool chemicals?
They of course needed to camplage that one like a sand dune a hundred miles in the desert to make sure we didn't bomb their pool chemical factory...

Right, tell that one to Democrats.

[A CA Guy]

pristine** camouflage **

Excuse me.

[A CA Guy]

If I had a gun in my house illegally and I was told that months from now, inspectors would be in my house to look for the gun, would the gun be here when they come to look? Hell no!

Between what was moved and what was buried, there was plenty.

Trusting people to pontificate way after the fact about things they refused to chase down in a timely manner is ridiculous.

LASTLY and most importantly. Saddam and Iraq needed an ass whooping for financing terror in Israel and elsewhere for people to blow themselves up.
WMD was a reason, but financing terror and hundred of mass graves with more to come was more than a legitimate reason to go in.
As usual, we did good.