Frustrated, US Arms Teams to Leave Iraq

Washington Post ^ | 5/11/2003 | Barton Gellman

[Gore_ War_ Vet]

Shhhhh! Maybe nobody will notice. This is just proof at how successful our bombing campaign was.

[joesbucks]

Now there's an explanation I haven't heard. We bombed the evidence from existance.

I hope the WH communications office don't see our missive. It gives them the answer to what I believe over time will be a very sticky question.

[Gore_ War_ Vet]

at=of doh!

[Gore_ War_ Vet]

$100,000,000,000+, 10's of thousands of Iraqi lives, hundreds of our troops, to find out I've got more WMD's under my kitchen sink than Sadam had.

[chainsaw]

They should go to Syria, there they will find wrapped in a blanket all the evidence
you need.

[meenie]

Not to worry, some cockamimie story will be enough to put the public back to sleep. How about, "The devil made me do it"?. Or, "Barney ate the intelligence report on the way to the office".

[tsmith130]

It doesn't make sense....if Saddam had no WMD, why wouldn't he just prove that to the inspectors rather than risk everything? Why the extended game of cat and mouse if there was nothing to hide? I don't get it.....

[SBprone]

Where the heck am I?

I thought I was on FR. but it looks like I stumbled into DU by mistake.

OK, there's my ride. See ya.

[gabby hayes]

Little things like standards of proof should never get in the way of blind obeddience?

[LS]

Um, you totally missed the point. Saddam was REQUIRED to PROVE he had destroyed these. He did not. Thus, in the absence of proof of destruction, we had to ACT as though they existed. All this means is that we were 100% successful in PROVING that he does not (and will never) have them.

Now, shall we talk abou the Al-Quaeda links---which to me were the far more important reason to take out this regime?

[LS]

The public has never been asleep. It has known since that "minor" event called 9/11 that we have ENEMIES, they are REAL, and we need to obliterate everyone who is involved in supporting or sheltering terrorists. Saddam qualified, big time. He should have been on the hit list even without the threat of WMDs. Thankfully, the public knows this, although the Dems still haven't figured it out.

Which will be very good for 2004.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

10's of thousands of Iraqi lives

Where did you get that figure? We weren't responsible for the deaths of 10's of thousands of Iraqis.

[Amelia]

Odd, looks like they found another mobile bioweapons lab yesterday.

[Seti 1]

It doesn't make sense....if Saddam had no WMD, why wouldn't he just prove that to the inspectors rather than risk everything?

Maybe because Saddam understood that it is not possible to prove a negative. The weapons can always be somewhere else, as we have seen. So he scraped together a couple of billion, shaved off his moustache, and went to live with the ex-Nazis in South America.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Though I don't agree with you, glad to see you're still posting. ;>)

[Nick Danger]

Third-and-nine, Bush is in the shotgun. Tommy Franks on the outside.

The Arms Team goes in motion. Democrats shift into a blitz...

[Gore_ War_ Vet]

Though I don't agree with you, glad to see you're still posting.

...and I you. If you end up in the same place, does it really matter who you followed to get there?

We're not that far apart, you and I. #;o)

[Eastbound]

Saddam was the weapon of mass destruction. Mission accomplished!