Do you believe that there were WMDs in Iraq?

Question

ABC News reports that a poll shows that 50% of Americans believe that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. So, what do Yahoo Answers people believe?

Okay, I finally found a link to the poll, although it is from Yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060806/ap_on_re_us/iraq_believing_wmd

Answer 1

The WMD in Iraq was a few examples of leftovers from pre-Desert Storm times. Stuff Iraq probably didn't even know it still had. Stuff the USA wasn't accusing them of having. The USA case for war was that Iraq had active weapons programs and WMD ready to go, immediate threat kind of stuff.

And don't even suggest that they moved it to syria. Again, if they had WMD in the quantities the USA was accussing, they wouldn't've been able to hide such a movement, plust the production facilities would still exist.

Answer 2

Saddam Hussein used nerve gas on the Kurds. It's pretty clear that he had it at one time. I think that it is still possible that the infamous WMDs will be found in a bunker somewhere. I do think that the current administration (US) was less than honest about a lot of things leading up to the invasion of Iraq. That being said, Saddam Hussein was an incredibly dangerous and vile leader who violated the UN multiple times.

Answer 3

I recently hear that hezbollah may have some on loan from Syria, Fox news of course would say that, those bias mofos. There was stuff Saddan was probably working on that he didn't want anyone to see, but it was probably a 50-foot dildo for his deeply seeded issues.
My question is if they had it, why didn't they use it as a deterrent, I mean what's the use having it if you can't or won't use it. He had to know his days were numbers, why not push the button?
If Syria has them as Fox said why aren't they using them, they are still pissed at the Israelis for the Golan Heights unresolved land issues.

Answer 4

If you mean chemical weapons and maybe some bio weapons yes.
But not nukes.
And Chemical weapons aren't cause for alarm.
They recently found some old chemical weapons in Iraqi desert.
Nothing but mustard gas...that's World War One weaponry.
Americans were deceived into believing that Saddam was on the verge of developing Nuclear Weapons.

Answer 5

because of fact all of us understand that Bush grew to become into warned in basic terms before time by ability of Blair that his intelligence source grew to become into questionable. because of fact all of us understand that 6 years after the invasion, our very own intelligence community admitted that the US inspectors have been precise while they reported there have been no WMD's in Iraq. Bush had obtainable intelligence that there have been no WMD's, yet he in basic terms listened to those he needed to. have you ever heard any conflict in the intelligence community that Obama ought to %. from? What you like is on the spot awareness and reaction time. you think of the President could desire to be waiting to pronounce each and all of the information interior of a nil.5 hour and already have troops on the way.

Answer 6

It takes 6 -8 weeks to deploy troops to the other side of the world.

Just how much cargo can moved by determined people with trucks in 6 -8 weeks!

How many people believe that expensive weapons like that would just be left to be confiscated by the US troops?

I know the media is chock full of idiots, but think people, for God's sake !

Answer 7

At some point there was. They used them on the Kurds on the eighties.

The problem was that they kept telling the UN that they could not inspect suspected WMD locations. Wouldn't you think they were hiding something? I do? They tossed them before we invaded. Everyone should know that. Saddam learned after the first war that he had no chanch fighting the US military and knew his only chance was a political war.

Answer 8

Iraq did have WMDs. Poison Gas was used on the Kurdish population.

Answer 9

Yes, we sold them the WMD's back in the 80's that Saddam used on the Kurds. The question should be did they still have stockpiles of them in 2003.

Answer 10

Absolutely we they had WMD's. He used them on his own people. Its not a secret. Bush Sr. knew it, Clinton knew it, GW knew it, The house and senate knew it, the other 30 countries that are with us in the coalition knew it. Saddam was given plenty of time to get rid of them. He had Russia, France, and Germany on his payroll, he was also tight with Syria.