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Do you honestly believe Saddam wouldn't sell WMD to AQ?

Peach, do you honestly believe that AQ would have to buy WMD's from Iraq? If AQ wanted them they could just as easily (maybe more easily) make them themselves and avoid the risk of detection. And there are a number of sources for them on the international weapons black market (Russia comes to mind, maybe China too). They're not exactly that exotic. H*ll, you or I could make them if we had a mind to do so.

What we were sold is a bill of goods that Iraq had massive quantities deployable WMD's and were going to use them against us. Obviously not the case. It's no shame to fall for a lie. It is a tragedy to defend that lie after it becomes apparent you were lied to. I doubt that Bush lied to us deliberately. He probably fell for lies that were told to him for reasons known only to the teller. Let's see how he handles it. It ends up as an ego and pride situation for all of us (ego gets me in a position, pride keeps me there) and is a test of true charachter.

Templar - making a few weapons of mass destruction isn't terribly difficult. Iraq had more than a few - he devoted BILLIONS of dollars to his program. He used them, repeatedly and brutally. He threatened the entire region with them.

I don't believe I fell for a lie. You do. That's a shame and must disappoint you terribly.

A little history being discussed :

Democrats resorting to scare tactics to attack Bush

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The launch of the Sputnik satellite, the first manned spacecraft to orbit the earth, by the USSR in October 1957 created panic in America. How could the homeland be safe as long as Russia could violate our airspace unchallenged?

Democratic politicians vying for the presidential nomination sought to squeeze partisan gain from the people's fear. Missouri Sen. Stuart Symington, followed shortly by Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy, accused President Eisenhower of allowing Russia to pull ahead of us in ICBM production.

They declared that the Russian ICBM stock soon would surpass our own. Thus was born one of the greatest fables in modern presidential politics, the nonexistent missile gap of 1960.

It is said that there is nothing new under the sun. Florida Sen. Bob Graham, a recent entrant to the Democratic presidential field, claims to know that al-Qaida is regrouping and that President Bush has been largely unsuccessful in his strategy against the terror network.

As if on cue, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts is playing a devastating Kennedy to Graham's Symington. Meet the "terror gap."
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