Does anybody really believe that these are the WMD's Bush was talking about? The press isn't buying it.

Question

Weren't we told Saddam had moblie chemical weapons labs? Rumours of Anthrax, and proof he was trying to build a nuclear weapon, and that this would all be found?
Or since election time is around the corner, are the republicans trying everything to justify going into Iraq, by finding WW1 Vintage weapons which most don't work?

Answer 1

Keep watching CNN Skippy, they'll give you everything your tiny liberal mind needs to know in convenient thimble-sized servings. The media is upset because they forced the Intelligence Committee to review the Pentagons findings and sure enough they found some. Why is anyone surprised? Where are the industrial centifuges capable of enriching uranium that "disappeared" under the noses of the U.N. Atomic and Weapons inspectors.

Why don't whiny liberals want to know the truth and why do they get upset when they find out they were wrong?

Answer 2

Sarin gas - which has been found since 2003 has a much longer shelf life than mustard gas, etc - and could potentially be used. The press clearly wants nothing to do with this report and will deny its existance, regardless of the reality because they and the Dems have made it their central anti war issue.

As Hannerty said "If its so harmless, let a liberal store it in their garage"

Additionally - Saddam, in 2000 claimed all weapons, regardless of its condition were destroyed. But, the press and Dems prefer to beleive Saddam, than our military.

Lastly - (as so many people have stated, but were also rejected by the media and international community) these weapons came via Russia, China, France - and ironically - the same 3 who denounced our Iraq invasion. Blood on their hands.

Answer 3

Bush said "WMD's"; We found "WMD's".

Are you sure these aren't the right ones? Did you check the serial numbers on the Sarin nerve gas shells?

"plus futé que toi" Always answers with the same little snippet of the story that serves her agenda... How incredibly typical!!!

She should be more intellectually honest and include the rest of the story she's quoting from.

Answer 4

No. According to Fox News, neither does the Bush administration:


"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.""

Excuse me Josh H. I'll be verbose as requested but the point still stands. Not my fault that you can't deal with the truth.

The rest of the article.

Ahem...

"The official said the findings did raise questions about the years of weapons inspections that had not resulted in locating the fairly sizeable stash of chemical weapons. And he noted that it may say something about Hussein's intent and desire. The report does suggest that some of the weapons were likely put on the black market and may have been used outside Iraq.

He also said that the Defense Department statement shortly after the March 2003 invasion saying that "we had all known weapons facilities secured," has proven itself to be untrue.

"It turned out the whole country was an ammo dump," he said, adding that on more than one occasion, a conventional weapons site has been uncovered and chemical weapons have been discovered mixed within them.

Hoekstra and Santorum lamented that Americans were given the impression after a 16-month search conducted by the Iraq Survey Group that the evidence of continuing research and development of weapons of mass destruction was insignificant. But the National Ground Intelligence Center took up where the ISG left off when it completed its report in November 2004, and in the process of collecting intelligence for the purpose of force protection for soldiers and sailors still on the ground in Iraq, has shown that the weapons inspections were incomplete, they and others have said.

"We know it was there, in place, it just wasn't operative when inspectors got there after the war, but we know what the inspectors found from talking with the scientists in Iraq that it could have been cranked up immediately, and that's what Saddam had planned to do if the sanctions against Iraq had halted and they were certainly headed in that direction," said Fred Barnes, editor of The Weekly Standard and a FOX News contributor.

"It is significant. Perhaps, the administration just, they think they weathered the debate over WMD being found there immediately and don't want to return to it again because things are otherwise going better for them, and then, I think, there's mindless resistance to releasing any classified documents from Iraq," Barnes said.

The release of the declassified materials comes as the Senate debates Democratic proposals to create a timetable for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq. The debate has had the effect of creating disunity among Democrats, a majority of whom shrunk Wednesday from an amendment proposed by Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to have troops to be completely withdrawn from Iraq by the middle of next year.

At the same time, congressional Republicans have stayed highly united, rallying around a White House that has seen successes in the last couple weeks, first with the death of terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, then the completion of the formation of Iraq's Cabinet and then the announcement Tuesday that another key Al Qaeda in Iraq leader, "religious emir" Mansour Suleiman Mansour Khalifi al-Mashhadani, or Sheik Mansour, was also killed in a U.S. airstrike.

Santorum pointed out that during Wednesday's debate, several Senate Democrats said that no weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq, a claim, he said, that the declassified document proves is untrue.

"This is an incredibly — in my mind — significant finding. The idea that, as my colleagues have repeatedly said in this debate on the other side of the aisle, that there are no weapons of mass destruction, is in fact false," he said.

As a result of this new information, under the aegis of his chairmanship, Hoekstra said he is going to ask for more reporting by the various intelligence agencies about weapons of mass destruction.

"We are working on the declassification of the report. We are going to do a thorough search of what additional reports exist in the intelligence community. And we are going to put additional pressure on the Department of Defense and the folks in Iraq to more fully pursue a complete investigation of what existed in Iraq before the war," Hoekstra said."

Answer 5

Of course the press isn't buying it, it would show they were wrong. The Bush administration is staying away from this, and has said they are not the weapons that we went in there looking for. you can't throw this one back at him.

Answer 6

You answered your own question. Of course it's all about the upcoming election. I am hopeful the public has finally caught on about all the bull***t about the war.

Answer 7

Of course the press wouldn't buy it. THEY ARE DEMOCRATAS!

Answer 8

yes i do.