Bush, Rumsfeld Confident Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Destruction

American Forces Press Service ^ | July 10, 2003 | Linda D. Kozaryn

[The Wizard]

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[The Duke]

Of course all this begs the question, "why would he have these weapons and not use them?"

[jwalsh07]

Of course all this begs the question, "why would he have these weapons and not use them?"

For the same reason that they guy with the knife in the fight with the guy with gun decides that bringing a knife to a gun fight wasn't a bright idea.

[Douglas]

Don't hold your breath guys. They ain't gonna find them. Andd its getting to the point that if they claim to find them many just are not going to beleive them. Someone is lying big time - whether its the White House or CIA or whomever.

Oh yeah, that police action is quickly trning into a guerialla war. And I think these guys will be tougher even than the Viet Cong.

Can you spell quagmire.

[okie01]

Before anybody asserts "There were no WMDs, Bush lied", consider this:

1. When the UNSCOM inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq in November, 1998 (a whole 'nother story), they had confirmed the existence of "tons of chemical weapons" and "hundreds of liters of biological weapons". They were there, then. Where are they now?

2. What do you call nuclear centrifuges buried in rose gardens? Or mobile laboratories with no apparent purpose other than propagation of biological weapons? Or barrels of ricin? Or, for that matter, tanker trucks full of fumed silicon dioxide...???

Go ahead. Make my day.

[Burkeman1]

Wait? Wouldn't WMD's be considered the "Gun" and our conventional weapons be considered the "knife"?

[jwalsh07]

Wait? Wouldn't WMD's be considered the "Gun" and our conventional weapons be considered the "knife"?

The people of Iraq can thank their lucky stars that they had a sage man like Insane rather than you calling the shots.

[okie01]

"Can you spell quagmire."

I gather your idea of a quagmire is a sandbox that's been under a sprinkler too long.

[jwalsh07]

Can you spell quagmire.

I can and I can also spell marxist, in this case DOUGLAS.

[Burkeman1]

Not following you? Are you saying we would have killed thousands of Iraqi civilians if "Insane" used his WMDS?

[AD from SpringBay]

Ok - let's leave and say, "Sorry." Let's get Saddam back in power. Let's cover the mass graves with sand.

[Douglas]

Word of advice taken out of the words of that very right wing talk show host Lee Rodgers (KSFO, Bay Area) when speaking of Bush:

"Don't fall in love with a politician, he'll break your heart every time".

Sage advice many on this board need to take before they wrap themselves around Bush in support of what he has done here. This thing could come apart quickly and its the conservative cause that will be hurt for decades to come.

[PurVirgo]

okay, I heard something ( I don't remember where so no flames please ) about Iraqi ships cruising the Arabian (?) sea in radio silence. I swear it was on one of the news channels with a scrolling headline bar... Is there by chance anyone else who saw this? Why haven;t we gone after them??

[jwalsh07]

What's to follow? The stated policy of the United States of America is to respond to WMD attacks on Americans with thermonuclear weapons.

You don't like the policy, vote for Dennis Kucinich.

[arete]

Ok - let's leave and say, "Sorry." Let's get Saddam back in power. Let's cover the mass graves with sand.If you expect that kind of logic to cover for administration lies, you're dreaming. Lying about a BJ is one thing, but lying about going to war is treason.

Richard W.

[Douglas]

Quote from Superman: The Movie, Lex Luthor speaking to Miss Tessmacher:

"You give them eyes and they see not".

I do believe it fits in your case.

[pierrem15]

So you think that Saddam Hussein cleverly managed to secretly destroy the liters of anthrax, VX and mustard gas precursors, etc., already documented by the UN in 1998, despite the fact that revealing prrof of their destruction would have saved his regime?

So you believe that an army that had trouble getting food and clothing to its troops had extra resources to distribute tens of thousands of gas masks and atropine injectors simply to burn more fuel and take space in supply lines?

These guys are tougher tha the VC? Is that the ones who whine every day that they don't have any AC, or the ones who complain about waiting to buy gas? Or do you mean the tough guys who shoved women and children in front of them as they fought?

Vietnam was a mountainous tropical jungle with an unassailable reserve of 4 million well trained men in North Vietnam (same size as the Wehrmacht in June '44) and a superpower sponser. Say what?

That the press circle around our dead in Iraq like buzzards looking for red meat for the treasonous Demonrats doesn't surprise me. What does suprise me are the number of freepers looking to play into their hands and giving into what is becoming a pack-media stampede.

I can understand any number of reasons for opposing the war or wanting us to pull out now (none of which are any good imho), but to call Bush a liar when most of the "sources" are obvious Dem stooges or patent frauds is ridiculous.

[okie01]

"...about Iraqi ships cruising the Arabian (?) sea in radio silence...Why haven;t we gone after them??"

There were three of them. They were sailing in ever-decreasing circles in a remote part of the Indian Ocean.

And they never existed. They were a myth...