In the years prior to 911 and then the invasion, the world agreed that Saddam had WMDs. He had used them on Iraq and on his own people. He refused to prove that he had destroyed them. He thwarted attempts to inspect and prove that he had. He lied, manipulated, obfuscated and danced around the whole effort to prove that he had. It strains credulity to believe he had destroyed them. Because the efforts to make him comply with the 17th (or was it 18th?) UN resolution "final warning" were stalled by countries such as Germany and France, he had plenty of time to destroy, hide and/or ship out of the country what he had.
I, for one, will never believe that he did not have any WMDs on the eve of our invasion. I believe he destroyed some (dumped some into the Tigris, destroyed others) during the weeks leading up to the invasion and the rest he shipped to Syria. I still believe they will be found one day - hopefully not by their use on innocents.
I think The Black Beast is from the Film Actors Guild.
Alec Baldwin is that you????
dung.
You dont need to convince me that Saddams afterlife will
feature a long term confinement in hell.
But again, the german Grundgesetz strictly requires that
its territory or that of its allies is under imminent
attack to justify military action.
The al-Qaida terrorist training camps in Afghanistan were
considered to pose such a threat and proof was plenty that
they existed.
In Iraq, Hans Blix and company went there to assess Saddams
capabilities. They were dead on target with every single
report that was made, contrary to the "...erroneous intelligence that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was developing and stockpiling nuclear, chemical and biological weapons..." (Scott McClellan, White House Speaker, January 2005)
And no, neither regime change nor preemptive action are
valid causes to go to war for today's Germany.