Posted on 03/07/2005 12:35:40 PM PST by rightalien
Thank you. That is a great collection of quotes.
Bump.
Copy them. Spread them around.
When I get into it with a Lib co-worker...I toss them into an email. It usually cuts through the BS and ends the discussion...except with the most ardent of Kool-Aid drinkers.
Bump.
"A better question is why didn't Saddam open up to inspection?"
Another good question is, if Saddam had WMDs in March 2003, why didn't he use them on the invading American forces? What better time to become the next Saladin than then? Not using them gets his a$$ kicked, which is what happened. If I'm Saddam and 'the evil infidel' is whipping my military's a$$, I'm pushing every WMD button I can find. Why not? What'd he have to lose at that point?
Screw the RATS on this thread. One despot down with the capability of WMD..hell he USED THEM!!! I have no doubt many went to Syria in trucks. We saw them.
One less proliferator = safer world. PERIOD.
NOW...let's protect the HOME FRONT and our borders with the same vigor!!
Cheers!
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/3/2/230625.shtml
Correct link to article.
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I told my wife at that time the WMD issue is probably going to be a bluff (as far as knowing where they are) and that we stand a chance of not finding any.
As for not being able to count on knowing where things are, then why did we say we "knew"?
Dueffler did conclude that there were WMD's, but that the programs were not active and ongoing.
That sarin gas projectile launched at our military was the most buried and ignored news item coming out of Iraq since the war began. Now let's get this straight: a sarin gas projectile is a WMD!!! It was launched at our forces by terrorists. How can that information be ignored? If the terrorists had one projectile, isn't it reasonable to assume that they have access to more? I'm completely at a loss as to why the Bush admin doesn't point this out. But we found...FIFTY-THREE MORE!!!, according to the Duelfer report. No wmds...BAH!!!!
Gee...why is Syria so intent on maintaining troops at the Bekkah?
oops! I seems to be hitting the post button twice today - sorry all
Well, I can't honestly say I know in any detail what sort of conversations took place between Hans Blix and this or that member of the US government. So, perhaps you are right.
Let us suppose you are right then. We "never really told Blix where to look". Ok, fine.
The fact remains that WMD have been found in Iraq, as per the Duelfer report.
As for not being able to count on knowing where things are, then why did we say we "knew"?
Who's this "we", anyway? Who said "we knew"? I know of one quote from Donald Rumsfeld (which came after the war started so that can't be what you're talking about). But once again this statement of yours is too hopelessly vague to be addressed.
But again, suppose you're right that "we" said "we knew" where the WMDs were, all of them. Evidently, "we" were wrong. They were elsewhere, or had been moved since our latest intelligence. So what?
The fact remains that Iraq had WMD.
Dueffler did conclude that there were WMD's, but that the programs were not active and ongoing.
Since Duelfer concluded there were WMDs, it sure would be nice if "There weren't any WMDs! We've found NOTHING!" were not the conventional wisdom, wouldn't it?
Whether "the programs" (all of them?) were "active and ongoing" (whatever that means exactly) is a separate matter and to be honest I am not sure why it matters to anything. Actually, scratch that: I am sure that it doesn't matter to anything. It is a red herring, a moved goalpost.
Saddam Hussein was not allowed to have undeclared WMDs as long as he didn't have "active, ongoing" programs. That wasn't the deal.
cute comic. Looks like we knew where they were about as well as Blix did.
"It's possible he thought he could retrieve and redeploy the little nasties after the UN inspectors left and during the month long air war before the ground war began. "
It's also possible that he knew that the few WMDs he did have (like 53 or so aged sarin artillery shells) would have no real effect on our troops, other than to verify the US stance on his owning WMDs and solidify world support against him.
"The French tipped off the Iraqis at every turnas to when we would be coming" - Scott Ritter...then
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