Bush had good reason to believe there were WMD in Iraq

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 4/12/06 | John Hughes

[jdm]

"Bush had good reason to believe there were WMD in Iraq"

There are and there were.

[Echo Talon]

LOL!

[pcottraux]

Why would Bush lie about WMDs to lead us to war? If he had known there weren't really any over there, it wouldn't have made sense to lead us to war on that pretense because he would know none would be found and that his lie would be exposed.

[TommyDale]

So far, the only "proof" is that WMDs haven't been found -- yet. What will all these critics say when they are uncovered?

[Echo Talon]

[kinghorse]

grow up people. maybe if we did the president would treat us like adults. we can't handle the truth. requires too much intestinal fortitude and we've just about legislated that out of existence.

[Mr. Jeeves]

In December 2002, Hussein called his generals together for a surprising announcement: Iraq did not possess WMD...

...any more. I guess he didn't tell his Generals the rest of it: that Putin had helped transport the whole load to Syria for safekeeping. ;)

[Caleb1411]

Why would Bush lie about WMDs to lead us to war? If he had known there weren't really any over there, it wouldn't have made sense to lead us to war on that pretense because he would know none would be found and that his lie would be exposed.

You gotta slow down a little; you're going too fast for Democrats, whose already-diminished capacities for following logical arguments have been further vitiated by 8 years of Clinton's baloney.

[HHKrepublican_2]

No way this is ChriSci Monitor!!

[spikeytx86]

The thing I don't get is why we did not plant any when we could find none. That would have saved us and the administration a ton of "Bush Lied Kids Died" phooey.

[ConservativeBamaFan]

If you’ll take a look at the websites, below, you’ll see that Iraq DID have WMD’s, but the main stream media doesn’t want to report it.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05310/600991.stm

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14295

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/28/110744.shtml

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=1&issue=20060224



I know, it doesn't fit the template so it doesn't get reported. (sigh)

[USNBandit]

In retrospect it is clear that the weapons did not exist,...

Then why were the Iraqis modifying SA-2 missiles into surface to surface missiles and why were the Iraqis engaged in ballistic missile manufacturing in violation of U.N. range restrictions?

[gondramB]

"The Bush critics can argue that the president was too gullible in accepting the conclusion of his intelligence agencies. But the evidence does not suggest that he knowingly lied to the American public about the existence of WMD."

The Clinton administration thought they were there too.

I must say that up to the day of the surgical strike on the neighborhood where we tried to kill Saddam I believed and was saying that we would not mount a full scale invasion without proof of an imminent threat and that appears to have been wrong.

[jaydubya2]

I've made that agument from the begining. Why would he intentionally set himself up for failure?

[RSmithOpt]

Yup!! W had several good reasons to believe that WMD's were in Iraq.

FYI: Guess what?

On a personal bone-fide'.

We've found them, continue to find them, documented them along with a few tons Saddam regime documents that acknowledge(d) their presence. and the administration/military has ordered their continued removal with the cover up.

What I'd like to know is why?

[Tribune7]

When the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had close ties with Hussein, told Vice President Cheney that Hussein did not want war but would use chemical weapons if attacked,

Dude, it's cool. I told him, like, you, had, like, chemicals weapons, you know, like you wanted.

[rightinthemiddle]

ping

[ex-snook]

However the mushroom cloud may not have been the reason Bush went into Iraq. If it was, the troops would be home by now. We know that Iran is of no immediate mushroom threat and we got them in our sights now. We want a presence there. Iraq was a doable start, or so it was reported.

[DoctorMichael]

......Michael Moore, Kris Matthews, Barbara Streisand, Howie Dean, Ted Kennedy, Rob Reiner, Dan Rather, etc., etc., etc. are lying, NOT Bush.