Posted on 09/07/2006 7:31:46 AM PDT by yoe
As the war in Iraq becomes more unpopular with an increasing number of Americans, Democrats in collusion with the liberal mainstream media, continue to politicize the war by blatantly distorting the facts.
For example, a popular refrain is that President Bush lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in order to implement a grand strategy fashioned by neo-conservatives well before Bush actually took office. Said strategy was supposedly aimed at using military force to install democratic regimes friendly to the U.S. throughout the Middle East.
However, the left has never adequately answered the following question. If Bush knew there was no WMD, why would he send 150,000 troops into Iraq, since his "lie" would be immediately exposed by invading coalition forces and reported by a large contingent of media embedded within those forces?
Liberals also choose to ignore United Nations Resolution 144I, which clearly established that Iraq had WMD. That resolution was approved unanimously by the UN member nations.
Besides the illogic in claiming that President Bush lied about WMD, the liberal argument is discredited by comments by Democrats themselves in the years and months leading up to the 2003 invasion.
Herewith a substantial collection of quotes from "responsible professionals" about Saddam Hussein and WMD in Iraq:
Albright - Al Gore - Tom Harken - Arlen Spector - Barbara Boxer - Wesley Clark - Robert Byrd etc.
(Excerpt) Read more at postchronicle.com ...
Nothing to see here. Move along.
-Leftists
Did Liberals Lie...
Yes
enuf said right there.
The libs try to use a little sleight-of-hand in their reasoning. They claim that George W. Bush said that there were WMD's in Iraq. Notwithstanding the fact that chemical weapons have been uncovered there, they parrot the following:
Bush said there were WMD's.
There were no WMD's.
Therefore, Bush lied.
The first sentence of their little syllogism is true, but it is not the whole truth. The libs' implication (and this is critical) is that Bush--and ONLY BUSH--said that there were WMD's.
For them to say that Bush and Clinton and Kennedy and Daschle and virtually everybody in the world said that there were WMD's makes their attack on Bush disintegrate. So they play their little word game, and the 49% of the American public too stupid to realize it, will continue to believe this lie. Goebbels would be proud.
Yes and they continue to lie everyday.
Yeah, but Bush was only the Governor of Texas when all the dems were screaming about WMD's. Man, that Karl Rove must be really, really good!
His lips are moving.
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Liberals are not interested in the truth. They just repeat the same bilge over and over again until if becomes reality.
If Israel had been allowed to move into the Bekaa Valley, this whole debate would be moot.
Yes, in liberal amounts.
If The Bush Administration Lied About WMD, So Did These People
“So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real" - Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
"I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- John F. Kerry, Oct 2002
Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security." -- Hillary Clinton, October 10, 2002
America is united in its determination to eliminate forever the threat of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction." -- John Edwards, Oct 10, 2002
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." - Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction." -- Dick Gephardt in September of 2002
"There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat... Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. -- Wesley Clark on September 26, 2002
"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies." - Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program." - Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"Saddam's goal ... is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed." -- Madeline Albright, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten time since 1983." - Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb 18, 1998
"Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people." -- Tom Daschle in 1998
Finally .. somebody besides Rush and FR are publishing this info.
Talk to the Soldiers on the ground. I have a friend that was infected by an Iraqi Scud that had chemical weapons. His liver and spleen are shot, he lost part of one lung, and he has had 2 heart attacks...Your good ol MSM would never report this, but Hussein used WMD against our troops...All of these asses that deny that fact are borderline criminals.
There actually were WMD's, and plenty of evidence for such still in Iraq directly following the war.. ( Massive amounts of pesticides, the main ingredient in nerve gas..)
Additionally, there is evidence of WMD's moved to Syria just prior to and during the war..
Further, there is direct evidence through admission and the handing over of materials and personnel from Lybia.. ( These were NUCLEAR materials, research and scientists..{Iraqi nuclear scientists} doing weapons research and development..In Libya..)
You have all listened to the lie, repeated often, and now accept it as truth.. Lenin, Stalin and Marx would be proud..
Let's see now...
The DUmmies say that:
(1) GWB wanted to attack Iraq.
(2) To get support for that war, GWB decided to "trick" America into thinking Iraq was a danger, by claiming that Iraq had WMDs.
(3) That claim was a "lie", because GWB "knew" very well that there were no WMDs in Iraq.
(4) Therefore, GWB "knew" that his "lie" would be exposed unless there was a "cover-up".
(5) Therefore, as a "cover-up", GWB ordered the CIA to place vast stocks of WMDs in Iraq immediately after the collapse of Iraq's army.
(6) Therefore, when those vast stocks of WMDs were "found", GWB was hailed as the most far-seeing President that America has ever had.
(7) Therefore, GWB is so overwhelmingly popular now, that the Constitution is being amended to permit GWB to be elected to a THIRD Presidential term!
Oh? What's that? Vast stocks of WMDs were NOT "found"? GWB is NOT overwhelmingly popular?
How can that be?
SURELY...if GWB was clever enough to "trick" America into going to war, then GWB was clever enough to cover-up his "lie" about the WMDs.
Hmmm...
Is the absence of the "cover-up" PROOF of the absense of the "lie"?
Has anyone ever seen a video clip of Bush saying we have to invade Iraq because they have WMD?
If there were such a clip, wouldn't the Kerry campaingn have played it ad nauseum in the last election?
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