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Don't Be So Sure There Were No WMD in Iraq
The American Thinker ^ | July 3, 2007 | Rachel Neuwirth

Posted on 07/03/2007 5:39:57 AM PDT by Quilla

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To: Bluebird Singing

“3. Massive amounts of WMD were removed to known locations in Syria just prior to the war.

Does anyone remember seeing the satellite footage of the caravans of Iraqi military vehicles heading to Syria which was shown in the weeks before we went to war in Iraq? The muteness of the Bush administration from the time this criticism started is frustrating.”

OK. Showtime or tinfoil hat time.

Democrats scream for four years(1998-2002) that Iraq has WMD
Colin Powell showed the WMD footage to the UN and the trucks and sites.
Trucks leave Iraq by the hundreds leading up to the war
We have all the trucks on Satellite and intelligence has trucks monitored.
The trucks all mysteriously disappear
US inveades Iraq.
Democrats scream no WMD exists.
Bush administration doesn’t argue. Why?

What happened?

If it was known that WMD existed, then terrorists would only have to say they had them and were planning attacks. This would send the world into a panic. Global markets would come crashing down, oil prices would skyrocket, people would basically go nuts.

In addition, the Democrats and the UN would blame the Bush administration for a total failure to secure Saddams WMD and putting the world in jeapordy.

By secretly destroying the WMD then saying there was none, it was the lesser of two evils for the Bush administration as well as for the world.

Call it taking one for the team.


101 posted on 07/03/2007 1:57:11 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (THE US SENATE IS THE MOST CORRUPT BODY POLITIC SINCE THE ROMAN EMPIRE.)
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To: MacDorcha
You assert you have no faith in another’s first-hand accounts. Fine. Guess that pretty much excludes the Bible from you “must-read” list.

Ah but that's the inspired Word of God isn't it? A little bit different.

You know what? Go to Hell! You can’t even take a fellow man’s word? Fine!

Well that's not nice is it? I've done nothing but banter, perhaps with a few smart remarks thrown in. Nothing out of the ordinary. But nothing to deserve that. Nowhere have I engaged in personal attacks or lost my temper. I have taken the word of some that have been there and then documentation of others to the contrary of your opinion.

If you think the WMDs are there then provide proof. But to hide behind cryptic 'I can't tell you because it's not my role but if I could boy howdy you'd be amazed' and then expect me to believe it is asking a bit much don't you think?

102 posted on 07/03/2007 1:57:43 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: Bluebird Singing
The muteness of the Bush administration from the time this criticism started is frustrating.

Sadly muteness and the lack of reasoned rebuttal has been a sad trait of this administration.

At times...it seemed there was "no fight in the dog"....

But maybe I'm wrong....

103 posted on 07/03/2007 2:00:06 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Steal from one person, and you're a criminal. Steal from EVERYONE, and you're a Government.)
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To: billbears

I’m not hiding behind anything. I face legal reprecussions if I step out of line. You, do not.

And I believe you called me a “nut” and stated that I’m ignorant and buy into whacko-theories.

That coupld with your repeated insults dismissing of my statements earned every heart-felt urge to curse you into the place where reason does not exist!

And your statement about it being “inspired by God’s Word” better keep in mind- “Pearl Harbor” (the movie) was inspired by real events!


104 posted on 07/03/2007 2:06:56 PM PDT by MacDorcha (study links agenda-driven morons and junk science...)
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To: MacDorcha
And I believe you called me a “nut” and stated that I’m ignorant and buy into whacko-theories.

I just looked over the posts I made on this thread. At no point did I 'call you a nut', state your ignorance or that you bought into whacko-theories. Now I may have stated that some that believe in WMDs do so as ardently as those that believe in UFOs but I did not pick you out in particular did I?

That coupld with your repeated insults dismissing of my statements earned every heart-felt urge to curse you into the place where reason does not exist!

Looking over my statements they were meant in jest. Considering the number of times the existence of WMDs were really there keeps popping up from 'those in the know' I tire of it. I think there was a group that really did believe they existed at the level claimed by the administration. I also think there is a group of adults that still believe in Santa Claus. Doesn't make him any more real though does it?

And your statement about it being “inspired by God’s Word” better keep in mind- “Pearl Harbor” (the movie) was inspired by real events!

Well that and FDR's intervention into the Asian theater in the 1930s over something that was none of our business. No wait that's the actual event, not the movie. The movie hardly touched on it. Dern, over 70 years and we still haven't learned.

105 posted on 07/03/2007 3:37:50 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: Quilla

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106 posted on 07/03/2007 3:38:52 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: Quilla
The Bush administration is saying there were no WMDs so that the leftist press, which always wants to contradict him, will dig around to prove there were weapons.

Then the Leftists can say Bush lied two times, once when he said there were weapons and once when he said there were no weapons.

107 posted on 07/03/2007 4:12:25 PM PDT by syriacus (If the US troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949, there would have been no Korean War (1950-53).)
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To: billbears

“But Mac and his flying car that he got from the aliens are going to prove me wrong it seems. “

Seems to me you DID in fact pick me out.

Now that I know you cant even bother to scroll a few posts back, I now know why I’m not getting through to you-

You have absolutely nothing but pre-concieved notions to believe in.

Good luck with that, this conversation is over.


108 posted on 07/03/2007 4:25:31 PM PDT by MacDorcha (study links agenda-driven morons and junk science...)
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To: Quilla

WMD ping.


109 posted on 07/03/2007 4:29:09 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
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To: MacDorcha
“But Mac and his flying car that he got from the aliens are going to prove me wrong it seems. “

Ah but I didn't call you crazy did I? Tongue in cheek. A j..o..k..e.

Put some ice on it and keep waiting for the news to cover your story.

Good day.

110 posted on 07/03/2007 4:32:48 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: Quilla

“Bush lied” bump


111 posted on 07/03/2007 5:06:27 PM PDT by Dajjal
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To: From One - Many

Excellent posting bud.


112 posted on 07/03/2007 5:22:01 PM PDT by ikez78 (http://www.regimeofterror.com)
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To: Quilla

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/848341/posts

Some more here.


113 posted on 07/03/2007 5:24:13 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: billbears
I guess that the Iraqi Kurds were just faking that nerve gas thing; same as them pesky Joos with the holocaust I ‘spose.

I guess that I never seen satellite pictures of scud warheads being filled with an agent. Oh wait that was pretty scented flower oil to be sprayed on happy Kuwaiti children.

Give it a rest huh? The rest is the belief that something tangible that did exist suddenly no longer exists. That’s absurd.

114 posted on 07/03/2007 5:35:08 PM PDT by samm1148 (Pennsylvania-They haven't taxed air--yet)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Does anyone remember seeing the satellite footage of the caravans of Iraqi military vehicles heading to Syria which was shown in the weeks before we went to war in Iraq

In my opinion these caravans did not enter Syria although there were heading West toward Syria, they were heading to some specific locations in the Western Desert also know as the Anbar province. I think these caravans were carrying the Precursors (basic materials) and other equipments required to make Chemical Weapons and they were buried deep in the Anbar province.

115 posted on 07/03/2007 6:03:50 PM PDT by jveritas (Support the Commander in Chief in Times of War.)
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To: billbears

Have you seen this GIS research?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536665/posts

More at posts 80-85;

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1323498/posts?page=85#80


116 posted on 07/03/2007 6:37:52 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: samm1148
I guess that the Iraqi Kurds were just faking that nerve gas thing, same as them pesky Joos with the holocaust I ‘spose.

I said neither (if you'll note in my previous posts) but as has become common practice of late, much easier to toss slurs eh? So tell us samm when did you stop beating your wife?

I guess that I never seen satellite pictures of scud warheads being filled with an agent. Oh wait that was pretty scented flower oil to be sprayed on happy Kuwaiti children.

You'll provide me the exact document that Kuwait is a member state of our union will you? How about Nigeria? Darfur, Sudan? Somalia? What happens between two other nations frankly is not of my concern as neither represent a threat to our nation.

The rest is the belief that something tangible that did exist suddenly no longer exists. That’s absurd.

Yes because once something exists by definition it cannot be destroyed until we say it is destroyed. Talk about absurd

117 posted on 07/03/2007 6:41:10 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: Quilla

This was a very good article. My husband was in Iraq and served as a civilian convoy commander as a mail hauler out of BIAP, Bahgdad International Airport. He was in Bahdad for 15 months. He served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait for a total of two and a half years.
He traveled all over Iraq and has knowledge of these WMDs.
Why our President is denying this is a mystery. What is his purpose?
It sure leaves us, his supporters out on a limb.


118 posted on 07/03/2007 6:58:03 PM PDT by Betsy Reed
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To: From One - Many

Do you know something the rest of us don’t or just something the NY Times doesn’t report?


119 posted on 07/03/2007 9:36:43 PM PDT by ikez78 (http://www.regimeofterror.com)
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To: ViLaLuz

good point. He kinda got the hint over and over in the “rush” to war


120 posted on 07/03/2007 9:59:11 PM PDT by ikez78 (http://www.regimeofterror.com)
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