Posted on 12/23/2003 6:10:07 AM PST by JohnGalt
The UN, Bill Clinton, the CIA...all known liars, said he had WMDs.
Therefore, logic dictates we should expect the opposite.
Most likely, Saddam destroyed his stockpiles between 1993-95 just as Kamal said.
Up is certainly down if you are asking conservatives to trust Bill Clinton. A billion dollars later, Kay has found nothing.
Please take notice that I said that the question was did he have WMDs in recent years. We all know that he had them in the 80's and early 90's. The US supplied them. Continuing to fudge the question by saying he had them without regard to when is disengenious, at best.
After many months of looking we see no evidence that he had any, at least since 1998. He certainly did not use any to defend himself during our invasion-Blair's 45 minute claim notwithstanding.
It is now pretty obvious that there were no WMDs to endanger us when we attacked. Any assertion otherwise bears the burden of proof-you are the one claiming the inprobable. We do need to know if the president lied or was fooled and we have to stop the silly defense of Bush in the face of the facts.
It behooves the Republican Party to determine the truth honestly and openly to protect the party's reputation and to get us a 4 year gridlock rather than a 4 year socialist hell.
I am on the President's side, you seem intent on defending Saddam from charges he had WMD. You also can't seem to read between the lines...from the story:
Kuwaiti authorities have seized archaeological artefacts and "other items" smuggled from Iraq into Kuwait, Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah said in remarks published on Thursday.
Asked about the report of seized biological warheads, al-Sabah also told al-Qabas newspaper: "Up to now we have not verified this...
Other items have also been seized which we will examine and announce (the findings) soon," added al-Sabah.
He danced a waltz around the question. This story was hushed up the same way the Bekaa Valley explosion was.
Obvious only to the willfully blind and assorted ideologues.
Any assertion otherwise bears the burden of proof-you are the one claiming the inprobable.
Not really, you see I have seen all the proof I need to see that Hussein had the capability, the motive and the will to put WMD into the hands of those with suicidal tendencies. The burden of proof in my eyes has been met and exceeded.
We do need to know if the president lied or was fooled and we have to stop the silly defense of Bush in the face of the facts.
Lets put it this way, if you are calling the President a liar, then I think you're a liar. If you are calling him a dupe then I think you are the one being duped.
There is ample evidence of WMD programs, thus far no stockpiles. No biggie except that the inventory may have transferred ownership and now resides with jihadists of the first order.
And herein lies the problem... working without tools...
Oh yeah, now I'm convinced. :-}
Doesn't matter whether he destroyed the stockpiles or didn't destroy the stockpiles, he maintained the programs and it doesn't take much program to whip up VX.
The world and America is a safer place since President Bush moved on the jihadists and nuts. You can a rgue that if you'd like but I won't take you're argument any more seriously than I do Howard Deans.
BTW, I'm really going to relish your whining when Bush is reelected in a landslide.
Serious? humor? wishful thinking? I give up.!!!
Are you f-ing insane? I commonly get called a "Bushbot" because I defend the President so vehemently. You and I have already had the conversation about the FBI/CIA incompetence...I suppose you still believe Joseph Wilson as well in spite of the fact that the FBI/CIA stated that the only reason they doubted the uranium-seeking story was because Saddam already had enough uranium. You have knocked Debka sources in the past, even though the story about the WMD going to the Bekaa Valley was later backed up by U.S. intelligence who said the shipments "failed to register" with them at the time. As far as the Kuwait story...
Shawkat al-Hakem, Al-Siyassah managing editor, told the AP on Saturday that the minister's comments did not negate his paper's report. He said the paper stood by its story.
al-Sabah literally danced around the question in his denial (Asked about the report of seized biological warheads, al-Sabah also told al-Qabas newspaper: "Up to now we have not verified this...") and the "other items" that were confiscated were never defined...the story was literally swept under the rug after al-Sabah's denial, a little too quickly for my taste.
Your insistence to defend Saddam against the WMD charges makes me wonder who YOU are working for.
Expound, please, what are they doing to undermine GWB? And since you continuously knock GWB on the WMD with personal attacks rather than cited facts, please explain why I should listen to you?
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