When Sadam used chemical weapons to kill thousands of Kurds, did he have WMDs?

Answer 1

What the hell do you think a WMD is? Chemical, biological, and nuclear.

Answer 2

Certainly, we would classify the gas agents that he used against the Kurds as WMD's. Of course much is made of this one instance to justify American involvement in Iraq. The Kurds must wonder why we didn't think it important enough to come to their aid when this actually happened.

Following the Gulf War, Saddam's stockpiles of these and other weapons were pretty much done away with. The recent finds of left-overs from this period do not provide the smoking gun the Administration has so long searched for to prove their misguided case for war in Iraq.

We have effectively removed one of the most important stabilizing elements in the Middle East. Yeah Saddam was a bad guy, but properly controlled (as he was by the US for many, many years) his regime provided a much needed check to Iranian (Shiite) ambitions in the region.

I have absolutely no interest in spreading freedom to people who don't deserve it. American "conservative" foreign policy used to be pragmatic and about doing what was in our best strategic interest. I've yet to see the proof that taking out Saddam was in our "best" strategic interest in that region. Personal emotions and Monday morning quarterbacking of George Bush Sr.'s very successful Gulf War strategy have led us into this Iraqi quagmire.

I never liked George Bush Sr., but his decision to leave Saddam as the power in Iraq was sound foreign policy. He should never have allowed himself to second guess himself when other Americans claimed that he had left the job undone. He did the right thing and his son's reckless Iraqi Adventure is all the proof we need.

Answer 3

Saddam Hussein did use WMDs (quite those we gave him), yet WMDs he had formerly the first warfare in Iraq. He were given rid of them because he had to, understanding we may bypass kick his *ss if he did not. on the time of the 2d Iraq warfare, there have been no WMDs anymore. He had gotten rid of them. And we were informed that by countless intelligence organizations around the globe, or maybe the CIA. the in basic terms crew to say there is WMDs became a set in the CIA operating with a guy named Ahmed Chalabi. difficulty is, Ahmed Chalabi became a time-honored liar and con artist. He had screwed us some situations formerly. He had also screwed the British, the French, the Israelis, the Egyptians, the Saudi Arabians, the Iranians, or maybe the Iraqi authorities itself. in reality, it fairly is why he defected to us; because Saddam Hussein became coming to kick his *ss for mendacity to Hussein's intelligence corporation. If Bush had maintained even an ounce of objectivity, he would not in any respect have lengthy gone into Iraq on the grounds that they had WMDs. yet he needed so badly to bypass, he allowed this time-honored con artist to bullsh*t him; and then Bush used that very similar bullsh*t on us. And for the list, contained in the first 4 years of the warfare, we exceeded the kind of Iraqis killed than Saddam Hussein managed contained in the full 25 years he became to blame in Iraq. That became 2 years in the past. So no, in all reality we haven't rescued extra Iraqis than we've killed. it fairly is made each and each of the truer at the same time as one realizes that we are those who placed Saddam Hussein to blame, and gave him his guns of mass destruction so as that he might want to strive against off the Soviets.

Answer 4

Everyone knows he HAD wmds. The lie is that he was developing new ones. Still looking for those? Found those yet? Oh wait, you and Rick Santorum found that little stack of ones that were pre-1991 and were so degraded that the only danger they posed was picking them up without gloves. Is that your proof? Is that your reason for sacrificing 2500 American lives?

9/11 - 2,976 dead
Hurricane Katrina - 1,836 dead (additional 1,840 missing and presumed dead)
American soldiers sacrificed in Iraq - 2,558 (2,421 since Bush declared "Mission Accomplished")

Answer 5

Yes, he did. And I had bad breath when I woke up this morning, but I brushed my teeth and now it smells minty fresh. Of course, if the Bush admin did an intelligent report on my bad breath, they would probably blame it on WMD's (Weapons of Mass Decay) and blow my mouth up, even though I had already cleaned it up.

Answer 6

Yes, why wasn't anything done about then?
When Saddam attacked the USS Stark and we did nothing about it, did he have WMD then?
Did Saddam have WMD when we went to war?

Answer 7

Sudam used what America gave him

Answer 8

yes he did he also used it on Iran

Answer 9

Yes he did. They are in Syria now...

Answer 10

of course... no one is arguing that point