Do you believe that George Bush believed that there was Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq before he invaded?

Answer 1

No he did not. If you will recall, he couldn't wait to call 9/11 an act of war. That was to give him an excuse. He knew very well that no WMD existed in Iraq.

Answer 2

Obviously a contentious issue. President Bush has a very hot political thorn in his side over his decision to invade Iraq. Gaining full, authentic and substantiated intelligence that Weapons of Mass Destruction existed anywhere in that region was always going to be difficult. If President Hussein did possess WMDs, he concealed them very well. If he didn't possess them, then President Bush must whether the political storm.
As for my personal belief, it is difficult for me to suggest either way, due to conflicting intelligence and the media reports coming out of that region. President Bush believed whatever intell. he received (right or wrong) and invaded. Either way, it is going to cost him. Even in Australia, there are those who believe that Pres. Bush was correct to invade and there are those who say the America has no right acting like some global Police man and invading another country regardless of WMD possession or other events in that country. As for me I think I will "sit on the fence" and keep my opinions to myself. It's much safer that way.

Answer 3

I think the biggest mistake he did was trying to make people believed that there was WMD before obtaning 100% truth about it. Now, there is no WMD and people blame him for making ties to support war in Iraq. Saddam should be removed! However, with rising number of people died because of this war how the to pull out and reconstruct Iraq at the same time? It is too late to back up.

Answer 4

Of course he did. The U.S. govt, was giving Hussein chemical weapons in the 1980's to help him fight Iran.

WMDs were found in Iraq after the UN forces invaded. The nerve gas he was using to kill the Kurds in northern Iraq IS a WMD.

The statements being made that say there were NO WMDs found are grossly innaccurate.

Answer 5

Yes. The US knew Saddam had them in the 1980s (because he used them in the Iran/Iraq war), they knew he had them in the 1990s because he gassed his own people, and Clinton certainly Thought he had them because he used cruise missiles to blow up factories that he thought were making them. Plus Saddam wanted people to think he had them (when he didn't) because he needed to scare the Kurds and Iraqi Shia. Now the intelligence Bush was getting wasn't good but he decided to roll the dice partly because he didn't care if Saddam had them or not he just wanted a good excuse to invade. And that's what he did and he's been suffering the consequences every since.

Answer 6

No, of course he knew there was not. I remember the U.N. Team IN IRAQ looking for them, yes they had to jump through hurdles, but Saddam was unable to keep them out of wherever they wanted to go. They even went to his private palaces to look when they were "said" to have been stored there. Every indication was that there were no weapons of mass destruction according to the U.N. report. This is why the President "blew off" the United Nations when he went to war and ignored their requests. He knew that their information was accurate, but not accurate in a way HE wanted to hear. Jeez people, it was on the news every single day when it was going on, remember?

Answer 7

GB stated that there were WMD, so did John Howard and Tony Blair. I believe they asked for and were given enough information by their advisors to make a statement that the WMD existed, than they have the fall back position of "new intelligence" to justify their original stuff up when the lie came out. If they truly believed that the WMD'S existed, and to date we have found 3parts of 5/8's of nothing, than their military advisors and intellectual geniuses need to be held accountable for the fact that nothing has been found.

Answer 8

i'm getting quite bored with getting to describe hassle-loose concepts of yank government to people yet right here is going: #a million. invoice Clinton became impeached (the comparable element as indicted) for mendacity on an identical time as decrease than oath concerning his testimony with reference to the BJ. #2. Impeachment can basically be exceeded down if the elected stable commits a severe crime or misdemeanor. #3. submitting intelligence comments from distinctive international locations to Congress and Congress using that information to declare conflict basically to confirm later that the intelligence comments have been incorrect isn't a criminal offense nor a misdemeanor and as a result no longer an impeachable offense.

Answer 9

Yes, I do believe that George Bush believed that there were WMD's in Iraq...because no one told him about the typo...they're in IRAN....

..and besides, it was the US who supplied Iraq with said weapons right after they had helped Hussein and his Baath Party take over the country...'where'd I leave my keys...?'

Answer 10

I don't know what he believed or what he chose to believe, but I do know that our own intelligence services told him specifically that there was no factual, hard intelligence to prove that there were WMDs in Iraq. Bush simply chose to believe in the possibility that there was, and the intelligence services agreed that the possibility did exist, they just couldn't prove it.

Answer 11

of course not. first - there's the downing street memo. americans were fixing the intelligence around the goal of war. no, that's second - first, there's the inspectors, remember Blix. He was finding nothing after nothing after nothign.. third - remember the vicious attack on joe wilson's wife for his revealin the yellow cake story was false? fourth - remember the skit bush did where he looked under his desk and behind a couch for the wmds and kept saying - no, none here. while our boys were dying...

you could not possibly be that callous if you'd actually thought they'd be there.

the world's intelligence agencies didn't think he had wmd - does anyone remember old europe being so against the war? does anyone remember blix?