Evidence of WMD plotting found in Iraq [My title: Time for the Dems to apologize]

The Daily Telegraph [UK] ^ | 8/1/03 | David Rennie and George Jones

[MHGinTN]

The really sad and scary thing is, too many Americans believe the lying deceiving dissembling deconstructing (our nation is being dismantle before our eyes by the democrats in their lust for power) democrats and want to have what the democrats lie to them to be the truth! And these people will blindly vote for the democrat candidate reagrdless of evidence or facts or the lies exposed from the democrats.

[TheWriterInTexas]

You are sadly mistaken if you think the CIA is the top intelligence agency in the world. We were caught unaware when India and Pakistan both went nuclear and detonated warheads in May of 1998, within 17 days of each other.

The CIA is good, let there be no doubt, but they are not the top and they are reliant, now more than ever, on intelligence from other countries. Why? Because Clinton refused to allow them to participate in dirty espionage, the most useful type of spying available. Most of what we know is coming from other countries, not intelligence we gleened first hand. That is why we got caught short in India, Pakistan, North Korea, and, particularly, on 9/11. So if you are going to complain about the lack of correct intelligence, particularly when it is coming from friendly countries, then BITCH AT CLINTON. He's the one who gutted the intelligence community!

It took the UN years to find all the stuff listed above. Iraq had 5 years to hide their stuff since we last went there for any extended period of time. But even recently, we discovered 151 warheads they claimed they didn't have, which were in violation of the cease fire agreement!

Moreoever, if you look at the pattern of hiding detailed from our previous 6 years of inspections, entire complexes were HIDDEN UNDERGROUND. The vast majority of our satellites cannot see UNDERGROUND. I have every confidence that the WMD have been moved to a facility the UN doesn't even know exists.

It was not until the deaths of Saddam's sons that Iraqi felt reasonably sure that Saddam would not return to power. Finally, at long last, the flood of information we hoped for is coming in. May just discovered thousands upon thousands of pages of documents that still need to be reviewed. Do you appreciate the complexity of the task at hand?

Bush had just cause to eliminate Saddam, under the terms of the cease-fire, Resolution 1154, and Saddam's known and proven sponsorship of terrorist organizations (PLO of AA has been on the terrorist books for years).

Saddam's past history of WMD procurement and production was only an added impetus, particularly if our friends and sources were warning us that he was restarting his programs again or had achieved a dangerous level of success.

Amazing, it is not, that in 1998, Democrats wholly supported concurrent resolutions #54, 71, and 78, which recognized Saddam's threat to American National Security, called for his removal, acknowledged his WMD programmes, etc., but suddenly are claiming he's just a pussycat now?

RNC talking points? No, my friend, someone is spouting DNC talking points in your ear. Facts are pesky things, and all of the above are FACTS.

[TheWriterInTexas]

:)

Sorry, I thought I was being factual and straight forward.

LOL.

[Maria S]

"Where would you hide a bag of sugar (anthrax)?? In a sugar bag!!"

Do you remember when Cohen was on Meet the Press with a 5-lb bag of sugar...trying to convince everyone that ONLY that small amount of anthrax would kill jillions. Part of the DNC talking points during the 90's.

[Republican Red]

President Bush never said IMMINENT DANGER. Clinton said it in his 1998 speech. President Bush said it was a growing threat. We got to get the bad guys before it reaches immenet level.

From the State of the Union, January 2003:

Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

It's now virtually the chief foreign policy plank of the Democratic platform that we should have permitted Saddam Hussein to develop his weapons programs until he was a direct and immediate threat to the United States--at which time he would have been able to deter us from taking action, as Kim Jong-Il has.

If one of these guys starts to look like he can win in 2004, I think I'm going to start constructing a bunker to live in for four years.

[TheWriterInTexas]

Yes, I did forget about the Marsh. Sorry, it was late and my rant was pretty extensive, but that you for that necessary addition!

[Terriergal]

The United States has found evidence of an active programme to make weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, including "truly amazing" testimony from Iraqis ordered to dupe United Nations inspectors before the war, the man leading the hunt said yesterday.

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find that gambling is going on in here!