We found the WMD's that the left was demanding so what happened to the Bush Lied theory?

Answer 1

You won't get any intelligent answers from the liberals. They don't live in reality with the rest of us. They will say it's old news or that it's degraded chemicals. Whatever - FACTS are FACTS and maybe someday liberals will realize this. They have bought into the main stream media's propaganda of 3 years that there were no WMD's - and now it's biting them in the a.s.s. This is what happens when you place emotion in front of logic & truth.

Answer 2

The wmd found where all old. In fact dated before 1990. So in reality whatever they found just proved that Saddam was not making any more of them and had in effect obeyed the UN orders. You certainly haven't heard Bush making any kind of big deal out of this. The Rep. who announced this is worried about getting re-elected, because people as a whole want this war over with. When will you and all like minded people see the truth about Bush? I am not an anti Republican, I just think that Bush lies, and very badly.

Answer 3

Now I know most of you are going to consider these assertions and for the most part they are. Anyhow consider the following.

1. Most countries have weapons. Many of those weapons can be used to cause large scale destruction. The justification to attack them can not be their possession of weapons. The cold war did not turn into a hot war because everyone knew that if you attacked then you would have to be ready for an attack. Thus that war was fought on different battlegrounds.

2. North Korea actually has nuclear weapons and poses a far greater threat to the world's security and not just America's than Saddam ever did. Yet there is no proper attention on them since the threat of retaliation is actually quite credible there. Saddam instead offered a softer target. Saddam had been reduced to petty thievery, stealing from the food for oil program. He was a thug at best, not a man in charge of a substantial army.

2. The weapons Saddam had were provided to him by us here in America. The goal then was to fight theocratic Iran, after the Shah of Iran who was sympathetic to the USA was thrown out in a religious revolt.

3. Since the USA delivered the weapons, they knew what the
weapons were. Iraq hardly had the brains or the infrastructure to 'create' weaponry any more advanced than the most conventional form. Why do you suppose Rumsfeld visited Iraq so many times in 1983-84. Saddam was using chemical weapons then as well. And he has them since then. So why all that attention now. Why the urgency of threat now.

4. The plan to attack Iraq and occupy it to do some nation building was in place and suggested to Clinton during his first term. The author of the paper that suggested most of these actions was Wolfowitz.

5. Bush Snr. as well as Clinton did not go through with the plan. Bush Snr. stopped short of Baghdad, since he did not have plans to occupy and get stuck. He had kicked Saddam's *** the first time and could easily have overthrown him but did not.

6. Prior to 911 there was no large push towards this idea. Post 911 the plan was to really go after and get Osama. The CIA found him to be in Afghanistan. They cornered him (with the help of the Northern Alliance and Special Forces Units) in Tora Bora. The regular army was not deployed to cut of his retreat. The architects of this plan figured that if the man behind 911 was found and destroyed then justice would be served and the deaths of the Americans avenged. This would take the steam out of any future attempts at spreading US influence using this cause.

7. The men of CIA and the Special Forces waited for over a month trying to make sure that Osama did not escape. The assistance they required did not come. Air support however was provided. But the bodies required to actually search and grab the bugger on the ground were not there.

8. The question is not between liberal's and conservatives. Osama did not attack only the conservatives at the WTC. American's ought to be out looking for him. Yet the Govt. has wasted money, effort, time, and lives in other pursuits. The questions being asked and debated should be about where is that bugger and why has HE not been brought to justice.

9. Instead we have Saddam being made a joke out of. Take the bastard out and shoot him. What’s this court crap. Time is again being wasted.

10. The American today is being shown a magic trick. He is made to look at the left hand while the right hand is stealing his money and his liberties.

11. Unlike most countries in the world the American's do not have a state sponsored national identity card (there are other cards that assist with documentation but are still voluntary). Because they were a people who were independent and loved their liberties. They did not want to be tracked like lab rats.

My sincerest apologize for that rant. I hope you folks get some idea of what I meant to say. It saddens me really to see potential in a nation and then see it wasted away due to tribal associations (i.e. democrats, republicans or liberals or conservatives). Think like Americans for once and forget who is proposing the change.

cheers.

Answer 4

Its alive and well:


Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense
Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.

"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

I think the left was demanding the WMD's for which the country DID go to war.

Answer 5

What WMD's? Proof? You have none.

Ok, so there is a report of a relatively small number of "WMD" that are essentially ineffectual.

From FOX news site....
A senior Defense Department official, however, made the following clarifications: (ok, BUSHES OWN PEOPLE)
These findings do not reflect a WMD capacity that was built up after 1991.
• These are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had.
• These are not the WMDs for which this country went to war.

President Bush, his administration, and allies based their argument for war primarily on the claim of an imminent and grave threat from Saddam Hussein to our country and our indefensible allies. They implied America's action was not aggression, but rather an act of legitimate self-defense, given the unique nature of terrorism, including its unpredictability.

What they found does not justify imminent and grave threat.

You righties will find anything you can to justify spending trillions of dollars on flimsy support for an illegal war.

How many lefties do you hear railing against Afghanistan-- not many because it was justified to go in there to get OBL and Al-Qaeda + the Taliban. Going into Iraq was folly for Bush.

How can you be so blind? Be objective.

oh-- again
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11
Its a terrorist haven now becuase we made it so
Sadaam was contained and we could have come up with better ways of getting rid of him (like allying ourselves with the Sunnis, Kurds and Shiites who also hated him and letting them do the dirty work-- just like in afghanistan in the 80's)

Answer 6

We did find what can be considered WMDs. A small collection of not too powerful intercontinental missiles if I remember correctly and enough parts of WMDS to successfully build them. The naysayers can find their coveted proof on MSNBC and Fox websites. (If you are among those who despise the media you are screwed as that is the most reliable -albeit not totally reliable-conveyance of information in this country - get used to it or leave.) Bush apparently didn't lie and I'm sad to admit this as I was one of those touting the Bush Lies banner. My apologies for too quick an assumption.

However, to this day I'm convinced we didn't go over there because of WMDs. (The government does always tell us exactly what's going on. That's why we have the CIA) But we may never know. For now we have to comfort ourselves in our piddly stock of discovered WMDs, the imprisonment of Sadam, and the death of Zaraqawi. (Not really that bad a record, although it cost way to much to achieve, IMO)

PS - I take minor offense to those who classify all liberals in one lump glob of ingnorant know nothings. I, by choice, hold a liberal affliation, although I try to be open minded. I admit I was wrong about Bush's claim of WMDs. They were there and I don't deny it...now. No I don't agree with Bush, but I didn't agree with him in his first term either. Not all of us are morons. Just the ones who are seem to have bigger microphones and much less to say.

Answer 7

What, the old chemical weapons that we sold Saddam? We knew he had that stuff long before this war. In fact we were worried that Saddam would use them on our troops in the first Gulf War.

They haven't found the nuclear weapons that Bush thought was there. Remember the statement "A smoking gun in the shape of a mushroom cloud?"

Answer 8

The left will tell you that: those aren't the weapons, they're too old, they're not nuclear, etc etc etc. They'll say ANYTHING they have to as long as they don't have to admit that they're wrong.

Hey "plus futé que toi" and "kookoo" :

"The intelligence overview published Wednesday stressed that the pre-Gulf War Iraqi chemical weapons could be sold on the black market.

"Use of these weapons by terrorists or insurgent groups would have implications for coalition forces in Iraq. The possibility of use outside Iraq cannot be ruled out," it said."

now, you can shut it.

Answer 9

Alright. Job well done, the Reich Wing Neo-Cons have prevailed again and proven the American people wrong. All heil King Bush.

So, lemme get this right. Osama doesn't exist. It was Iraqis all along that attacked us. It was them making nuclear weapons while N. Korea, India, and Iran just picked lillies and played b-ball. And, hell, when Bush said "Mission Accomplished", it meant that mission, not the new mission. Plus, we sent ironmen to Iraq, not like they need body armor. THEY'RE THE FREAKIN' X-MEN!

Please...

Answer 10

The truth has never been a stumbling block for the NeoCom, Liberal, Bush-bashing, tree-hugging, tax-and-spend, left-coast socialist, anti-American wussies! They will find a hundred ways to dispute the significance of the truth.