Weapons of Mass Destruction?

Question

Since Saddam Hussein never had WMD, why did he prevent the UN inspectors from visiting his palaces, what was he hiding????

Answer 1

there is a hour special on the history channel on saddam I would suggest you watch it. On that documentary they said saddam was defying the un inspectors to appear to his arab counterparts that he was a big man and fearless. He denied the un and was proud of that. In the end he gvot what he deserved.

Answer 2

He was hiding nothing, there were no WMD. Yes he gassed the Kurds but that was known about by the UN and the US. If fact the US was the supplier of that to Saddam during friendlier times. The entire notion of WMDs did not stem from gas that we knew about, or insecticide, but from the forged and made up connection of Saddam to the Africa yellow cake uranium. The UN inspectors found no WMDs, no facilities to make WMDs, no technology to build WMDs. It was a lie, it was a fake bill of goods sold to the people of the US by the Bushies.

Answer 3

he was being a big fish in his little pond and being defiant and arrogant. Much like Iran is, currently pushing the limits, thumbing his nose at the western powers.
Remember too that a month prior to our invasion of Iraq, Saddam began cooperating with the UN inspectors and the UN was content with his level of cooperation.GWB said he has those weapons, is hiding them and Saddam cannot be trusted so we must invade irregardless of his apparent cooperation.

Answer 4

There are a variety of theories on this topic. Some say he didn't want to feel like others had control over him and others say it was to make the U.N. fear him. Another theory is that he Had WMD's but either disposed of them before the war began or that the government found weapons but didn't want to cause a mass panic.

Answer 5

He let the UN visit the places that were on a list that was provided that was indicated to hold the weapons. His home was not on that list as far as I know. He felt that his home was his own space. He probably felt that it was his space and that the UN did not deserve to visit his palaces as they were no included in the search and he was going to stick to the letter of the law.

Answer 6

Of course Saddam had WMD. He gassed the Kurds, tried to use chemical weapons on the U.S. during the gulf war (but was ineffective). He did not want the U.N. to inspect his facilities (IMHO) because he was trying to enrich uranium. There were news stories about Saddam moving his weapons into Syria:
http://www.nysun.com/article/26514
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/wirq25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/25/ixnewstop.html

Answer 7

He didn't.

In 2002, Scott Ritter and Hans Blix reported that they were being given access everwhere in Iraq and that they didn't even have any escorts anymore.

Saddam knew that we would never invade if he really had Nukes.

Look at N. Korea. They DO have nukes and we are giving them $50 million.

Iran does not have nukes, so we can attack them.

Answer 8

While mass numbers of WMD's were not found, it is a fact he used Chemical warfare on the Kurds, its a fact that" 55 gallon drums of pesticide" along with binary artillery shells were found, but the liberal spin was, " agricultural use"

I don't know of many farmers who spray for bugs with artillery shells in this country, do you?

Answer 9

He wasn't trying to hide WMDs -- they were already moved to Syria. He was trying to protect the sovereignty of Iraq.

Answer 10

it's a misconception - of all the inspections that were carried out, over 300 - they only had an issue with 2 - there were never WMD - USA just needed a reason to invade.