Why all the Bush bashing about weapons of mass destruction. Saddam had mustard gas, don't that count?!?

Question

Saddam killed people with mustard gas, many people, doesn't that equal "mass destruction"?

Answer 1

Give it up, you will never get an honest debate from the left on this issue. Sarin and Mustard gas were both found in Iraq after the invasion and they are both classed as WMDs, but since this fact is inconvenient to the "Bush is bad, Bush lied" agenda they choose to ignore it. Frankly I don't even care anymore. The liberals have actually become their own worst enemies on this, they have repeated this crap so much that people have just become immune to it now. Need evidence, here is the best I can give you. There are no crowds of people in the streets protesting the war everyday like during Vietnam, and there are not overwhelming calls from reasonable people demanding Mr. Bush be investigated. In fact the majority of polls show that the majority is against this type of action. Let the liberals spout all the rhetoric they like on this because in reality the only people listening anymore are other liberals and they are not a majority by anyone's estimation.

Answer 2

Yes, it sure does. He also had many tons of nerve gas. Those who say that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction are wrong on a couple of accounts. First, he had the gases mentioned above, but nobody can say trithfully that he didn't have anything else.
That's something that we don't know for sure. It would be more accurate to say that none had been found. Iraq is about the size of California. Imagine looking for a thousand drums of chemicals in an area that size. Far worse than a needle in a haystack.
Imagine a farmer getting ready to plow a field of five or six acres. His wife walks across the field to tell him something. The farmer finishes plowing the field. When he gets in the house he notices that the wife's diamond if missing from her ring.
They notify their insurance agent. He says look for it in the plowed field. Of course, it couldn't be found, so the agent tells them that they never had a diamond, or else they would have found it.
Never having, and not finding are two different things.

Answer 3

The one aspect of the Iraqi war against supposed "WMD"s totally ignored by those that want to now use the existence of the war as a political tool, is Saddam’s game playing, baiting of UN investigators (for years) and creating overt prima facie evidence of the existence of a multitude of WMD’s. His game of international Nuclear/Bio poker verified his need for an issue of blackmail by deception. After the final takeover and ousting there were numerous facilities uncovered capable of chemical and bio weapons manufacture, carefully sanitized. Why do you suppose? The destruction of John Bulls super cannons aimed at Israel should give a moron the clue that Saddam and his administration had in mind mass destruction of vast areas of human populations. When you couple all that to the incontrovertible fact that the main target of this hate game in fact has LOTS of functional deliverable tactical nukes and were on the verge of using them… what would YOU do??? Spread sand on the dance floor? Offer them a 7-Up? Time for a reality check.

Answer 4

I believe that when the sarin gas was found, Bush said these weren't the weapons they were looking for. People are upset about the missing WMDs, because they were initially used as the reason to go to war with Iraq

Answer 5

Well, if you want to say that, then we should also go after the guys he got the mustard gas from.....that would be his good ol' buddies right here in the USA. Many of them work (or used to) in the current Bush administration.

Answer 6

I have a simple question: Why were UN weapons inspectors in Iraq before the war? Did they suspect Iraq had WMD? If UN believed that why blame Bush only? Why was Iraq constantly throwing them out, was he avoiding something ?

Answer 7

Mustard gas doesn't qualify as a WMD but Rumsfeld gave him some WMDs in the 80s when he was our ally.

Answer 8

The sum total of the chemical weapons found since we've invaded Iraq wouldn't even give you a carpet burn.

Answer 9

~Why can't you just let it go? There were no WMD, get over it! Mustard gas.. oh my gosh! Why not say he farted and killed someone!~

Answer 10

remember we allowed it to happen no sanction when he was at war with IRAN nothing happened so no it doesn't count. Mass destruction implies more deadly..