They have now found some WMD's in Iraq what does that make all of those who said none there now?

Question

Thank you John I knew I had read this somewhere and couldn't remember where

Answer 1

Well the 500 that were found were old but still Saddam gave his word that he COMPLETLY disarmed.

So if he's willing to lie about small old ones, why would he tell the truth about the big ones?

Answer 2

If you're referring to the ones mentioned by Santorum and Hoekstra, those were old shells, predating the 1991 war. They're not the ones the administration was talking about. If they've found weapons newer than that, that's news to me.

Pyramid Head: If you've read my answers, you'd know I'm hardly a lib. The Defense Department said themselves that the shells mentioned in the report were old. I never said that there were no new ones, just that I hadn't seen a report that new ones had been found. If there really were none after '91, then the entire world was fooled in '98.

Answer 3

To be very specific about it, the shells were old, too old to be used as combat munitions (the chemicals inside had degraded to the point where they were useless), and were often found mixed in with conventional shells (ie some Iraqi supply clerk screwed up in the mid 80) or simply found out in the middle of nowhere (ie they'd been lost.) They were definitely not a stockpile of useable weapons that Hussein was hiding from the rest of the world and which would have qualified as a caussus belli for the invasion.

Answer 4

Informed and intelligent. Your premise, no doubt formed by a Faux News report, as usual, is an exaggeration about some rotted out gas canisters. If I wanted to hurt somebody, I would have better success with a pea shooter than that. A WMD is not a WMD unless it is DELIVERABLE to a target. What is the delivery method to ANY conceivable target that you would name?

Answer 5

Yep, about 500 heavy artillery shells filled with nerve gas, mustard gas and sarin gas have been found, each one capable of wiping out a small town under the right weather conditions.

Also, 450,000 tons of high explosives were found. Just to put that in perspective, that's over one MILLION times the destructive power of Tim McVeigh's gift to Oklahoma City, which destroyed the Murraugh federal building and killed 168 people.

Answer 6

You need to put a source so people can read that you have something to back up your words. Because you wont hear anywhere like on CNN that they found WMDs. CNN is to liberal to show that. Fox News has shown it though.
No one will admit they are wrong. You should know that.

Answer 7

Chris has the typical lib answer for you. Of course they're old ones, of course the administration was lying, never mind the fact that the Clinton administration said the same thing about the weapons being there. "Bush is a liar" they will tell you. I've never seen such a generation of hate come from "peacenicks" in my life.

Answer 8

Please stop believing crap. And if you are listening to FOX News you will never get out of the clouds. They are the most biased news source there is and should be taken off the air. I don't mind hearing the truth as long as it IS the truth. FOX News is unfortunately a product of the right to "freedom of speech." They can say whatever they want and feel and it's o.k. Just don't take what they say as fact. They are Republican owned. Get it?

Answer 9

how has destroying then rebuilding Iraq while killing thousands of innocent lives.... alienating ourselves from the rest of the world and pissing off the Arab nation.... made us safer????

who give a shite about WMD's.... it was all BS anyways.... have you seen the justification for the war change throughout the years..... that's what 5 year olds do when they are lying!!!!!

Answer 10

You folks are so desperate to legitimize this war you will grasp at anything, read the articles.

The reality in this case is that after a 16-month, $900-million-plus investigation, the U.S. weapons hunters known as the Iraq Survey Group declared that Iraq had dismantled its chemical, biological and nuclear arms programs in 1991 under U.N. oversight. That finding in 2004 reaffirmed the work of U.N. inspectors who in 2002-03 found no trace of banned arsenals in Iraq