[hchutch]

Gee, looks less and less like Saddam was an innocent victim.

[hchutch]

Gee, could this explain a few things as well?

And any bets as to how long before the paleos come in with their usual blather?

[hchutch]

FYI ping.

[billbears]

LOL!! And all the while the editor of the other neocon publication is questioning Bush. So the question I guess now is which neocon publication to believe? The Frummites at NRO or Kristol and the PNAC/Weekly Standard? Decisions, decisions....

[dpwiener]

This is just plain silly. "Dirty bombs" are not weapons of mass destruction. They are more like weapons of mass annoyance. The main damage and loss of life caused by setting off a radiological bomb would come from the impact of the conventional explosives involved. The radioactivity would probably not kill anyone, or at worst would cause a slight increase (which was statistically questionable) in cancer 20 or 30 years down the road. The real impact of a radiological bomb would be to cause large portions of the affected city to be evacuated and/or abandoned (at a cost of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars) due to public hysteria over anything containing the word "radiation".

Let's save the term "Weapons of Mass Destruction" for weapons which truly kill large numbers of people, and not devalue our language for the sake of political expediency.

[Pres Raygun]

And why did Saddam have a nuclear facility in the first place?

Goos question, but I would ask the question this way

Why did Saddam have a nuclear facility in the first place when Iraq is blessed with an over abundance of oil and hydro electric power?

There can be only one reasonable answer to this question.

[yoe]

Proponents of the war countered that we were invading Iraq to prevent it from becoming a North Korea — which was, by all accounts, far too close to having a bomb to safely invade.

Didn't the Clintons visit N. Korea just before he/they left the White House just so they could have one more trip in AFO? Was that business or just a junket, what did they promise at that time for NK?

By invading Iraq, the coalition stopped Saddam and his machine from further development of WMD...North Korea on the other hand is more of China's problem, it's their neighborhood and in their interests to stop NK's nuclear buildup and as cooler non-liberal heads prevailed, Kim Jong Il apparently thought better of it all and quit his whining and blackmail of the US.

What on earth were the Clintons really doing in North Korea...??

[cardinal4]

Gee, looks less and less like Saddam was an innocent victim.

This WMD mass hysteria in no different than the Enron issue. As soon as it is debunked, the lefties will move on to another anti-Bush attack.

[x]

Saddam had STDs?

[McGavin999]

I also recall, from that same article, that they had found an underground facility that the inspection team was unaware of. Why has that disappeared from the news?

[The Great Satan]

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