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To: rintintin

Bush and Cheney even admit we found no WMDs


You might want to look at the context for those statements.

The idea that there were no WMDs in Iraq is simply absurd. In addition to clear use in their war with Iran, after Desert Storm, some large amounts of them were declared by Iraq, sampled, tagged, and many turned over for destruction - all with the involvement of a multitude of nations - and some of those sampled and tagged materials not turned over for destruction.

You’ve been throwing this silliness - and largely non sequitur - around for years, then fall on your face when presented with any of the wide variety of proofs that your position is unsustainable, at which time you start shifting goal posts or just move on to repeat elsewhere.

The issue at the time was not whether Iraq had them, but rather what happened to them, with our intelligence agencies stating a belief that Iraq did not in fact secretly destroy the materials declared, sampled, and tagged which had not been turned over for destruction.

There is also the legitimate argument over whether the response was appropriate, and even if appropriate was it performed correctly. That there were no WMDs there is not one of the legitimate arguments.


127 posted on 09/18/2020 2:27:09 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

“They said there were weapons of mass destruction and there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction,” - Donald Trump, South Carolina primary debate

“George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East,” - Donald Trump, South Caroline debate

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/13/trump_vs_bush_they_said_there_were_weapons_of_mass_destruction_and_they_knew_there_were_none_they_lied.html#!


144 posted on 09/18/2020 3:22:38 PM PDT by rintintin
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