[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 ?

[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.

[A CA Guy]

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

[SerpentDove]

Strange. I would have sworn they found sarin gas and ricin.

[PFC]

By now this comes as no surprise. And like it or not, it is gonna hurt U.S. credibility. That may or may not be fair but that's reality. The only way that can be overcome is for Iraq to be made stable and free. We have a lot on the line in making Iraq work.

[vezke]

Can anyone tell me why Saddam didnt resort to the use of WMD? If he actually had them.

What's the point of having WMD if you wont use them? Especially when faced with a force that intended to occupy and did so. This is the ultimate scenario for any country with WMD.

This is why we have them. Does anybody feel that we would ship them all off to our allies before the Russians completely conquered our country?

[BillF]

There were 53 WMDs found in Iraq and referred to in the Duelfer (Iraq Survey Group) Report issued last September.

Below is a map of Iraqi locations where WMDs were found. This is a map from the Duelfer Report as published on the CIA web site.

I understand that the Dems and their willing accomplices of the liberal media want to ignore these findings.

It is beyond me why President Bush and the administration have let themselves be put on the defensive over false assertions that no WMDs were found in Iraq.

President Bush, with his administration backing this line, should say, pointing to the below map:

The WMDs found in Iraq at the locations on this map were direct threats to America and all civilized countries. These weapons, kept in Iraq as Saddam continued to violate its ceasefire with us and 17 UN resolutions, required strong action by us.

The brave American and coalition forces took that strong action, liberating Iraq from a ruthless, mass-murdering dictator who had kept that country in bondage for decades.

Although it's true that the chemical WMDs found in Iraq were apparently made prior to 1991 and there were not as many WMDs as we, our allies, and our intelligence agencies believed, these weapons could easily have been used to murder innocent Americans in a terrorist attack.

Five (5) Americans were murdered, 13 others were infected, and major disruptions of our Congress and Postal Service resulted from a relatively small amount of anthrax mailed by an as-yet-unknown person or persons.

I don't think that the American people wanted Saddam to get away with flouting the ceasefire and the UN resolutions, keeping his WMDs, and continuing to pose a threat. We've found more WMDs in Iraq than were involved in the anthrax attacks. I wasn't about to trust that Saddam would not use the WMDs and would not transfer the WMDs to his terrorist allies.

Below is Figure 5, on page 30 of volume 3 (click here to go directly to map on CIA web site). You can click here to go to the index of the report.

[1_Thess_4_17]

Bush didn't go to war against Iraq because of WMDs. He went to war with Iraq because Saddam was in violation of UN resolution 1441 (and numerous others), that reslotution stated that if Saddam didn't allow the inspectors to do their job then force would be neccessary. Only the Coaltion of the Willing was willing to back that UN res. up. Resolutions need to have teeth, not just bark.

Furthermore, I too believe that Saddam had way too much time to remove the weapons. I'm sure they're in Syria. and we did find some as has been pointed out.