Show This Column to Anyone Who Claims Bush Lied about WMDs in Iraq

Townhall.com ^ | February 21, 2016 | John Hawkins

[gundog]

I’m not so certain that the Iraq invasion didn’t have something to do with surrounding Iran, should they become nuclear, or just militant, while we were in Afghanistan.

[Romulus]

So what’s your point?

I’ve been round this over and over on FR since 2002. They all lied.

[Romulus]

What a stupid thing to say. You do not even bother to have a look at the record before spouting your insulting nonsense. Not only dishonest, but lazy.

This may be more than you can grasp, but my little comments are not motivated by a political position. I’m interested in the truth. To be honest, this presidential race bores me. I think this country is over and you can have it. My care is for God’s honor and my soul.

[Kaslin]

You said Bush lied, until I pointed you to the quotes from the rats

[Romulus]

Bush lied all right. See his address to the UN General Assembly.

[Romulus]

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
Dick Cheney August 26, 2002

Tubes “are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs…The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
Condoleeza Rice September 2002

“We do know, with absolute certainty, that he is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.”
Cheney on Meet the Press, September 2002
“And in 1995, after four years of deception, Iraq finally admitted it had a crash nuclear weapons program prior to the Gulf war.

“We know now, were it not for that war, the regime in Iraq would likely have possessed a nuclear weapon no later than 1993.

“Today, Iraq continues to withhold important information about its nuclear program, weapons design, procurement logs, experiment data, and accounting of nuclear materials and documentation of foreign assistance.

“Iraq employs capable nuclear scientists and technicians. It retains physical infrastructure needed to build a nuclear weapon.

“Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminium tubes used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. Should Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

“And Iraq’s state-controlled media has reported numerous meetings between Saddam Hussein and his nuclear scientists, leaving little doubt about his continued appetite for these weapons.

“Iraq also possesses a force of Scud-type missiles with ranges beyond the 94 miles permitted by the UN Work at testing and production facilities shows that Iraq is building more long range missiles that can inflict mass death throughout the region.
GW Bush to UN General Assembly, September 2002

“If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.
Ari Fleischer December 2, 2002

The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it.
Ari Fleischer December 6, 2002

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
Ari Fleischer January 9, 2003

We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.
Vice President Dick Chaney March 16, 2003

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.
Gen. Tommy Franks
March 22, 2003

I have no doubt we’re going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.
Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman March 23, 2003

One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark March 22, 2003

We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
Donald Rumsfeld March 30, 2003

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find — and there will be plenty.
Neocon scholar Robert Kagan April 9, 2003

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.
Ari Fleischer April 10, 2003

We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.
George W. Bush April 24, 2003

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld April 25, 2003

We’ll find them. It’ll be a matter of time to do so.
George W. Bush May 3, 2003

I’m absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We’re just getting it just now.
Colin Powell May 4, 2003

We never believed that we’d just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld May 4, 2003

I’m not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein — because he had a weapons program.
George W. Bush May 6, 2003

U.S. officials never expected that “we were going to open garages and find” weapons of mass destruction.
Condoleeza Rice May 12, 2003

I don’t believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.
Donald Rumsfeld,
May 14, 2003

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we’re interrogating, I’m confident that we’re going to find weapons of mass destruction.
Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff May 26, 2003

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don’t know the answer.
Donald Rumsfeld May 27, 2003

For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.
Paul Wolfowitz May 28, 2003

It was a surprise to me then — it remains a surprise to me now — that we have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it’s not for lack of trying. We’ve been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they’re simply not there.
Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force May 30, 2003

[doug from upland]

The fools gave Obama four more years to systematically tear down our republic and the security of the Free World.

[B4Ranch]

No not really. Like you, I don’t trust Salon but this article isn’t loaded with the usual amount of bias. The WMD are mentioned in an aside manner to the rest of the article.

[Typical_Whitey]

I am sure George W Bush had more faith and hope in the American people to see through the load of crap that Obama..., I mean really, Barak Hussein Obama a Commie American blaming liberal far left ideologue on the heels of the Iraq war and the larger GWOT... WTF is wrong with America? What did America expect to happen? Of course you get ISIS of course you get a renewed expanding Russian threat of course you get a ME on fire and the Mullahs proclaiming victory... I blame the hoodwinked people here more than GWB. It is so crystal clear to me... I wonder why many can’t see it?

[Typical_Whitey]

Bingo...

[proudpapa]

You’re not seriously expecting a Trump bot to examine the facts, are you?

Lol.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump....

[RavenLooneyToon]

The talking heads still don't get it. In large part, America has figured it out. For the last quarter of a century, WE the Republic, have been denied the choice to say NO to socialism.

It has been a setup. The fix was always in. We, the Republic, have been loosing a war of financial attrition for decades. We, the Republic are engaged in a war with those who govern us. Drastic measures are required to defeat this enemy in order to stop the bleeding that each of us are seeing in the depreciation of our savings, the constant onslaught of taxes, fees, and licenses. Each of them designed to remove our ability to live free.

If a slave is a person who works for no money, then a paid person who works with no money left for savings or investment is therefore a slave.

The Communists are very good at planning each move, they have been at it for over sixty years, to bury us. They are so close to succeeding.

Trump has stepped in and has sensed our rage.We want to throw our shoes into the machinery. We want to turn over the apple carts and toss tea into the harbor. Trump is giving us a voice. He is giving our children and grandchildren a fighting chance of enjoying the life that our parents fought and spilled blood in Europe and Japan so as to impart liberty to ourselves.

No, we will no longer hide in the shadow of political correctness.

No, we will no longer stand idle in the face of the globalist Red Menace.

No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will rob our children.

No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will import an army of decapitating, lawless, savages into our home to eradicate Freedom and the American Way.

ANY and EVERY politician who will not build a wall is declaring he/she DOES NOT CARE IF YOU DIE!

I do not think Trump is a conservative.

I do not think Trump is morally pious and pure.

I do not think Trump is void of indiscretions or mistakes.

I do believe that any candidate that is a true conservative, morally pure, pious, and has walked the straight and narrow...would not stand a chance against the the globalist red menace that is systematically deconstructing our nation.

No, far from it.

Right now we need our own paladin of chaotic malice with a depraved sense of overly vengeful justice that will stand not for giving quarter. Right now we need our own Son of a Bitch glorious bastard, faults and all. We need to stomp out the treachery of political correctness that perpetuates racial discontent and has created Europe-istan, a Nuclear Iran, as well as ushering in a new world order of penniless servitude consisting of the entire earthly population bowing to but a few of the elite socialist megalomaniacs.

We need our own monster.

Ted Cruz may well be as advertised. No one knows. Four years ago, no one knew who he was.

He is young, deploy the Trump Bomb now, it is an ugly weapon of mass destruction that will result in some collateral damage, but it is required.

Alas, we have run out of time.

It will take many Ted Cruz clones to restore order in the aftermath.

[Skooz]

Agreed.

[AuntB]

Hi B4Ranch!

People have forgotten what a mess many of our vets came home to under Bush...sewer running on the floors of the barracks at Fort Bragg and worse! While at the same time, state of the art facilities were built to house ILLEGAL ALIENS!~

SHAME
towncriernews.blogspot.com/2008/04/shame.html

[KC Burke]

Face it. You could have a new suitcase nuke that you picked up in Bagdad and it won’t matter to some.

[dforest]

I think this issue is a dead one. Nobody wants to rehash this nightmare.