Why didn't he simply let the inspectors do their jobs? After all, if "everybody" knew that Saddam had WMD, then "everybody" must have had some idea where they were? Why not let the inspection process conclude?
Could the answer be that the inspectors continuing failure to find WMD would only expose the sham intelligence that Bush needed to justify war?
2007-02-25 08:26:42 · 13 answers · asked by Longhaired Freaky Person 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
yupchagee - Hans Blix said the exact opposite. Are you ALWAYS wrong?
2007-02-25 08:32:48 · update #1
Alex C - if it was a "well known fact" why couldn't the inspectors find them, before or after the war?
2007-02-25 08:36:31 · update #2
Ernest, you are re-cycling yupchagee's lie. Hans Blix said there were NO obstacles to inspections. Quit trying to re-write history, you fascists have been busted.
2007-02-25 08:42:13 · update #3
Saddam wasn't allowing the inspectors free access.
2007-02-25 08:29:03 · answer #1 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 18⤊ 3⤋
Yupchagee is wrong. That is disinformation repeated by the right. The inspectors were on the ground, missiles were being destroyed just prior to the invasion. Bush told them to leave just before the invasion. Remember Rumsfeld saying he knew where the WMD's were? Bottom line is they wanted to invade regardless and used the "Threat" of nuclear weapons as the scare to justify the invasion. Remember Rice talking about "mushroom clouds" and Cheney saying: "there is no doubt Saddam has reconstituted his nuclear program"?
2007-02-25 08:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
You need to do some research. Saddam was not permitting the inspectors to do their job. In addition to denying access to selected facilities, he was running a shell game on them.
Were this not the case, then help me understand the necessity for some 17 or 18 U.N. Resolutions and sanctions.
Revisionist history is a wonderful thing.
2007-02-25 08:36:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
honestly everybody with an IQ above one hundred knows saddam used WMD's on his very own human beings. there is no question they exist. except you're a democrat wanting to income some potential decrease back, then it incredibly is basically political fodder.
2016-12-14 05:32:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The weapons inspectors were overseen by the UN and Bush could not have made them quit inspections if he wanted to. What the rub was the inspectors were rarely given access to the sites they wanted to visit. When they were given access it was typically after several protests to the UN of being kept out of those sites and only to the portions of the sites that the escorts for the inspectors would allow them into. The inspection process was the sham.
2007-02-25 08:31:33 · answer #5 · answered by meathookcook 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Our rush to war made no sense at all. Unless war was a predisposed policy of the Bush administration in order to destabilize the middle east in order to drive up the price of oil.
2007-02-25 08:34:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Cmon man, I thought you were smarter than this . The Iraqis stalled, diverted, and required 'reservations' for the inspection teams . Only children could've been fooled by his tactics .
It's simple. . . . turn the coin over and whaddya have ? A rogue leader, guilty of mass murder, unspeakable torture, and a whole cavalcade of offenses, who could easily still be in power . . . IF. . . . . IF he had only allowed unfettered inspections . Knowing full well, that the USA and others were going to attack if he didn't allow unfettered inspections . That tells me, and every logical thinker, that he WAS HIDING WMD's .
2007-02-25 08:36:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Saddam wouldn't let the inspectors do their job!!!!!! And when he did he had plenty of time to have moved them, I suspect l ike many to Syria. So I will always believe there were WMD.
2007-02-25 08:37:06 · answer #8 · answered by Mercadies2000 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
How could BushOilCo execute their plans to destabilize and manipulate the Middle East if they allowed the inspectors to continue?
2007-02-25 08:32:07 · answer #9 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It is a well known fact that he had in his possesion WMDs and was willing to use them on innocent people...as he had in the past.
2007-02-25 08:35:03 · answer #10 · answered by Alex C 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋