My sneering, snarling liberal friends took that holier than thou glow as they condescendingly assured me that Saddam never had any WMDs.
Thus I can only conclude you’re a racist who wants to see a black man fail....
He had thousands. In fact his use of WMD's against Iran turned the tide in the Iran and Iraq war. The UN spent close to 10 years trying to destroy them all after Gulf War I. The WMD they destroyed during that time frame are even documented. Thousands of WMD components. The issue was, did the UN destroy them all and why did Saddam's own records suggest more existed ? And could we trust a UN inspector who later turned out to be a pedophile ?
IMHO - This is what happened. The US had decided to clean up the tyrants in the Middle East. During the first Gulf War, before the UN destroyed the remnants of Saddam's program, the US bombed most of Saddam's WMD facilities. If you remember we were trying to guarantee to Israel that Saddam would not have WMD on the Scuds he was firing at Israel. Our goal was to completely destroy the facilities from the air. The result was the spread of the components into the local area. It ended up making some lands off limits. There was one facility that was bombed, but not completely destroyed. The UN later inspected it and had to seal it because it was too dangerous. That facility was still there after we took Baghdad. It was verified initially to still be sealed. Then a few months later, it was found to have its seals broken and its WMD components that remained had been removed. No one knows where it went.
So now perhaps we know why even GWB admitted no WMD were found. The main reason was because insurgents, rebels and terrorists had taken the WMD components that were still there. And the US could not admit that had occurred. It would make the coming invasions of Libya and Syria almost impossible to pull off. So the entire world was led down the neo-con rabbit hole. We did not have to fear WMD's in the Middle East, since they did not exist. Thus the black ops leading from behind invasion of Libya and Syria could continue under Obama.
So now we have a Progressive President trying to justify an invasion of Syria because Assad possesses WMD and may use them. The Oligarchs have gotten the Progressives stuck into this laughable position because they were hoping the terrorist bombing in Damascus earlier in the year would have killed Assad.
I seem to recall there was a NYT article about 2005 or so that stated there were more than 500 tons of yellowcake in Iraq.
I've always been amazed by the Left's apeing of that line.