Posted on 08/05/2006 9:18:13 AM PDT by wagglebee
I fail to see how.
Ping
As you said, that statement makes zero sense at all. If the administration knows about WMD, it would go a long way to ensuring that Democrats are kept out of power for decades.
Harris poll comes out saying that over 50% of Americans NOW believe Iraq had WMD when we attacked. MSM response? Find someone to agree but have them say "WE KNEW" they were there and did nothing because we are incompetent.
See, it's ALL Bush's fault.
By failing to find the WMD's, they allowed them to return to the hands of those wishing harm on the US forces. By not ferretting out these weapons, the reason we went into Iraq, was to SAVE us from these weapons, the Republicans lose if the weapons surface in the hands of "insurgents". The argument switches from "Bush lied" to Bush was incompetent from start to finish. Which if this story holds water, would be probably true.
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"All they ever asked is that we, the U.S. government, inspect the sites they were risking their lives to show us," Gaubatz said. "They had heard President Bush say Saddam Hussein had WMD, and they wanted to help America. Now they are dead and the sites remain unsearched."
Truely sad...if not criminal
"As you said, that statement makes zero sense at all. If the administration knows about WMD, it would go a long way to ensuring that Democrats are kept out of power for decades."
Sorry Peach, gotta disagree here. Hiding the WMD was the only way that the RATS wouldn't create a global scare and blame it on Bush.
Let's say there were WMD and Bush in 2004 came out with "we found warehouses filled with the stuff." The RATS then come out and say, "how do we know we got them all? Maybe the terrorists got some and we cannot account for it." That would cause a scare and the RATS talking point would be that if we kept Saddam in check rther than attacked, terrorists wouldn't now have WMD.
I believe that the US and Russia had the stuff crated and sent back to Russia for destruction, using Syria as a storage facility. This way, the Israelis could monitor it. Bush knew he was going to win Ohio so taking the hit about "No WMD" wouldn't matter. Especially now since it wa recently reported that there were WMD, this takes the 2006-2008 "Bush Lied" talking point away.
BUMP
Just sent email to certain member of the armed services committee asking that they push an investigation of these potential WMD sites.
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Thanks for the PING. I actually think Bush's staff sees that over 50% believe that Saddam had WMD and bringing it up again will only bring more dishonestlly from the press/left which may drive it back down. Their ability to create and repeat soundbytes has proven pretty effective in the past and the calculation may be just to avoid it.
That certainly doesn't mean we shoudl though....
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Especially now since it wa recently reported that there were WMD, this takes the 2006-2008 "Bush Lied" talking point away.
You would think but most Democrats don't keep up. I argue this on the AARP forums. There is a thread over there on "Americans: Dumbest People on the Planet" because of that poll. I've done everything but provided serial numbers on the shells but you can't tell them anything. When you finally pin them down they come up with four or five more points.
Dallas County, Texas? This guy doesn't know Mary Mapes, does he?
I'm not buying it.
Filing this guy's story under "fiction."
Anyone know if there's confirmation from real sources, or just WND?
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