Posted on 10/23/2010 4:22:31 PM PDT by STARWISE
Is there someone that can cite Pres. G. W. Bush as having stated definitively and with certainty that Saddam Hussein had in his possession WMD? Some highly placed officials during the Clinton admin. came much closer than Dubya did to making such assertions.
God bless you, sir, and THANK YOU for your service. :o)
At any rate, you think if they found a live nuke in someones basement in Chicago, that anyone without a secret clearance would be told about it ?
Saddam HAD to have WMD just to counter what the Iranians are and were doing.
Wow. Excellent info. I should have read all the posts on the thread before posting my response above. In a hurry.
They did announce some of these discoveries, and they did show pictures. I remember it quite well.
It wasn’t enough for the MSM, though. They ignored it because unless there were eleventy-jillion giant nuclear bombs lines up in a row with a sign that said “Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction,” it didn’t count.
He NEVER said it. The closest anyone came was Tenent who told Bush it was a “slam dunk” that there were WMDs in Iraq. Bush always said the “THREAT” that Saddam had, or could share, WMDs was sufficient, and I agree. Had not a single WMD been found (and there were plenty), it still would have justified going into a nation that had repeatedly USED WMDs in the past and could give them to al-Queda.
I remember that also, but that's not what was being said in the early part of this thread. It was being said that significant amounts of WMD were found in Iraq, but that the Bush administration declined to acknowledge and display the finds due to some unspecified, grave national security concerns.
That I don't buy at all.
The warheads on some of those buried fighter jets.... Not exactly high explosive or armor piercing, eh?
APRIL 3, 2004 : (VX : REPORT : )... Final destination of VX byproduct draws opposition By Journal and Courier ... The Army hopes to begin destroying VX nerve agent at the Newport Chemical Depot here ... to eliminate neutralized waste from a mustard gas stockpile in Aberdeen, Md. "The treatability studies ... --- "Final destination of VX byproduct draws opposition," 3 Apr 2004 07:13 GMT
APRIL 3, 2004 : (US IS "FALLING BEHIND" SCHEDULE IN DESTROYING US GOVERNMENT CHEMICAL WEAPONS STOCKPILE) ... Pine Bluff Arsenal houses 12 percent of the government's chemical stockpile, which includes mustard gas, a blister agent, and the nerve agents VX and sarin. ...------ Weapon Incineration Falling Behind 3 Apr 2004 07:19 GMT
(* My note: Could it be because we are trying to quietly destroy Iraq's stockpiles alongside ours?)
APRIL 3, 2004 : (DESTRUCTION OF US GOVERNMENT STOCKPILES OF NERVE GAS TO BEGIN) ... fall through, the Army could store hydrolysate - the caustic byproduct from the neutralized VX - in tanks at the western Indiana site, he said. Barber fielded questions during ... ------- Nerve gas destruction to start in two months 3 Apr 2004 07:15 GMT
JUNE 2004 : (INDIANA : ARMY TO BEGIN TO DESTROY VX NERVE AGENT AT THE NEWPORT CHEMICAL DEPOT?) The Army said Wednesday that it plans to begin destroying VX nerve agent at the Newport Chemical Depot in about two months. Destruction will begin even if ... --- "Army Plans to Begin Destroying VX in Ind." 1 Apr 2004 06:41 GMT
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