To me, the fact that we uncovered parts of a banned nuclear weapons program buried in a scientists rose garden is ALL the justification we need for the war. But why has the Bushies not even published a picture of the find with cameras taking pictures and video tape of the digging up of this banned component of a WMD program?!!
You can say that they are stupid not to but I think they are not hyping that find because they went to war based on the notion that Saddam had nuclear weapons about to be ready to go into production.
In reality what Saddam looks like he was hidding was not stockpiles of WMD ready to use but the programs and components to re-start up production once the world's gaze was averted. But the Bushies sold the war on the basis of existing stockpiles of WMD not on the continued existance of a WMD production program which the evidence now indicates was all that Saddam had nad was what he was protecting.
If the WH sold the war just on non-compliance and told us flat out we don't think they have WMD stockpiles (but with a better safe than sorry provision) I think that would have been more--honest---and would not have gotten us into the PR problems the WH is having now with this issue.
I hope what I said sounds resonable and as you can see is more reasoned than what you would think I was thinking.
If the WH sold the war just on non-compliance and told us flat out we don't think they have WMD stockpilesWhy the 'and' there?
They sold the war on non-compliance. They also sold the war on them having some WMD and seeking others-- it so happens that many of the non-compliance issues deal with them producing what they had admitted to having so that we could verify their destruction.
They had WMD. That is only in doubt among those trying to discredit the administration for other (read: political) reasons. Where are they? Good question. We need to find them- just as we need to find the caches of rocket propelled grenade launchers that are being used against our troops. Weaponry, unfortunately, is easy to hide.
Why should this be a WH problem?
The United Nations and numerous intelligence agencies, even those of countries against the war reported tons of bio and chemical weapons stockpiles that were yet unaccounted for.
Was Bush supposed to deny the assertions from all these different sources and tell Amercicans there were no stockpiles?
It's rather amusing that so many people now have developed amnesia and are trying to tell us this was all a Bush invention to go to war.
These accusations against Blair and Bush are intellectually dishonest and far more representative of distortion than anything these two great leaders have ever said.
Why should this be a WH problem?
The United Nations and numerous intelligence agencies, even those of countries against the war reported tons of bio and chemical weapons stockpiles that were yet unaccounted for.
Was Bush supposed to deny the assertions from all these different sources and tell Amercicans there were no stockpiles?
It's rather amusing that so many people now have developed amnesia and are trying to tell us this was all a Bush invention to go to war.
These accusations against Blair and Bush are intellectually dishonest and far more representative of distortion than anything these two great leaders have ever said.