I don't know why I keep doing this. Must be a glutton for punishment or feel REALLY sorry for slow people. But here goes.
"Do you really think that we would concentrate 100,000 American troops in such a tiny staging area like Kuwait for months at a time before the war if we thought Sadaam could kill "millions of Americans"? Or as Condi said- "Do we have to wait for the mushroom cloud in NYC?"
The only place that we had in the reigon to prepare troops is Kuwait. The firing ranges and manuver ares are there. Army Central Command (ARCENT or 3rd Army however you want to look at it) also has their forward HQ there. Kuwait is also where the military does 75% of it's real world desert training. Makes perfect sense to stage for an attack on Iraq from there. Preparations for an invasion on the scale of OIF doesn't just happen over night. There are months of rehersals...practice and training for every possible scenario that could happen. It's rehearsed...rehearsed and rehearsed again. The repeated drilling is what allowed us to look like we moved so effortlessly into Iraq.
Plus the logistical assets needed for that many troops takes time to get moved into the area. Beans bullets and MRE's for a force that size take time to move. And then there's getting the equipment inplace. That takes months too.
It took the time from when President Bush threw down the gauntlet to the U.N. until we moved across the berm to get everything into place.
"One of the major reasons for going into Iraq was that Sadaam might pass his "WMDs" onto terrorists.
That was a pumped up story for months if not weeks."
And as things have played out over the last year and in the last week specifically, it turns out it was a legitimate reason. Not a pumped up story...a legitimate concern.
"The question I always asked during that periond was what was to prevent Sadaam from giving WMDs to terrorists once we invaded?
No answer of course."
You mean no answer that would fit your purview of the situation. IMHO...God himself could come down and tell you all of the reasons we went into Iraq were legitimate and you'd STILL be saying that "it doesn't prove anything"
We don't know yet that Saddam DIDN'T give WMD to the terrorists. But would you prefer them detonating a 155mm shell filed with a gallon of Sarin blowing up in your neighborhood...or at your kids school before you believe the terrorists have WMD? Wouldn't you prefer we find it SOONER (i.e. with the terrrosts and BEFORE they can deploy it) or later when 2000-3000 people in Anytown, U.S.A. are doing the dying cockroach from exposure to a chemical attack?
"And to this day we have two Sarin gas shells that was commonly used against Iran along with Mustard gas shells that are useless."
EXACTLY! Those are shells that Saddam and his leigon of apologists said were destroyed YEARS ago. He LIED! How many more are out there buried in the desert or sitting unmarked in the hands of insergents being prepped as an I.E.D.? And how do you know the Mustard Gas shells are useless? Are you an expert on chemical weapons?
"How many times do Freepers have to be smacked hard in the eye by this administration before they press charges?"
If there was legitimate deception then FReepers across the country and the world would be in an uproar. The silence you hear from them isn't their ignoreance as you think it is nor is it a silent agreement to your Kerry-esque "nuances". They simeply don't subscribe to yoir kook theories.
Let me ask one question and see if you can answer it with something close to a logical answer.
Why are you cheering hard for the bad guys and so hard against the U.S. where all of this is concerned?
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