Posted on 10/09/2019 6:24:41 AM PDT by Enlightened1
We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. Vice President Dick Chaney March 16, 2003
That wasn't true. All the rest was true. You are posting things without actually reading them. Saddam DID have some caches (we know because we undoubtedly sold them to him.) Saddam HAD used chemical weapons against insurgents (we know because our Marines found hundreds of mass graves.) Saddam DID try.... TRY... to purchase enriched uranium. Joe Wilson's report actually confirmed that Saddam TRIED. He just failed.
But if you're going to sit there and say Saddam never had any components of any chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons, that's just silly. They may have been degraded and unusable, but we couldn't know that till he was gone.
You are seriously going to excuse these Clintonian peek-a-boo quotes? Responsible people with a shred of decency don’t go on to the world stage and “imply” things with language that is technically OK if you parse it right, stand over here, look at it this way, etc. The world was intentionally led to believe something that was false.
The war was sold on the basis of a threat of imminent nuclear capability for the Iraqis: a lie that the Bush administration knew was a lie.
No, it was not about “imminent” nuclear capability. It was about biological and chemical weapons, as well as the possibility of —one day— nuclear weapons. And he had them. And we knew he had them. Because we gave them to him. (Well, sold them.)
“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.”
“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.”
GWB to the UN
Can you read? Seriously: Can.You.Read.
“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
“We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”
Vice President Dick Chaney March 16, 2003
Are you trying to tell me you wish he was still in power? The world would be better if we'd left Saddam in power? Because if that's your stance, fine. I don't agree, but hey, you do you.
Yes, I wish he were still in power. We’d have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and $trillions, and preserved christianity in the middle East.
Thats a large chunk of our national debt.
And don't forget a large amount of blood, legs, arms and souls of our decent and honorable young people.
What endless wars fighting for strange arab causes didn't do to our young, suicide and drugs did when they came home.
Americans are sick of supporting the war machine and the thugs and bureaucrats who feed off it when we can't even get these sh*ts to protect our borders. Go away stuffed shirt liberal elite generals and goons.
We weren't born yesterday. When we leave these hellholes the people will fight each other... and pride themselves on gory deaths and revenge. Because that's their culture - endless war. Your liberal shills in the press will write up pity party stories about the slaughters until even they get bored with it.
Downsize the pentagon, the CIA - - and move the nose-in-the-air thugs out of the FBI. Clean house.
NO MORE 'SPEECHES' by 'elites in Arab hellholes IN EXCHANGE FOR AMERICAN BLOOD AND TREASURE. NO MORE CONGRESS MEN RUNNING AROUND THE WORLD PICKING UP CASH AT EVERY STOP EVEN IF SELLING AMERICAN BLOOD FOR CASH WAS MADE LEGAL BY THE GREEDY ONES IN CONGRESS WHO WRITE LAWS TO BOOST THEIR CASH TAKE...
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