Didn't find those WMD's after 4 years of looking, so NOW they decide to stop?

Question

UNITED NATIONS, June 16 — The search for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction appears close to an official conclusion, several years after their absence became a foregone one.

The United States and Britain have circulated a new proposal to the members of the United Nations Security Council to “terminate immediately the mandates” of the weapons inspectors. Staff meetings on the latest proposal have already taken place, and officials say that the permanent Council members, each of whom has veto power, seem ready to let the inspection group — the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission — meet its end.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/18/world/middleeast/18weapons.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

My parakeet knows there were no WMD's.

Hi RLP - long time no see eh?

I can't accept that line of reasoning - here's why;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_personal_incredulity

Krytox - None of your links work or go to articles about WMD's. Care to post them again?

Else refer to the link for RLP above. Thanks.

Eric - "For the time being, Unmovic remains on a form of life support, not searching on the ground for weapons in Iraq but not going away either. A skeleton crew still analyzes satellite photographs and issues regular quarterly reports to the Security Council. The entire presence in Iraq consists of just two local staff members who, according to the most recent report, released at the end of May, “continued to perform routine maintenance on the office support equipment” left behind there."

Why do it at all? That was my point dude.

btw - please stop using the Santorum report, it was debunked a loooong time ago. They were left over empty artillery rounds that held some gases some time in the past. No usable.

SageandScholar - you're a breath of fresh air on a sea of bat guano.

Answer 1

Indeed - Bush has finally conceded what everyone except exceptionally deluded right wingers on this site accepted a long time ago.
The suggestion they are in Syria is not only laughable but really immensely insulting to the current president and his intelligence team. I ain't a fan of Dubya's but even I would not suggest that he could have completely missed the massive project of removing all these weapons across a border, right at a time when our scrutiny was at its very peak, with our troops beginning to build up around the country.
When you are proven beyond any shadow of a doubt to have been wrong it is better to just accept it and admit it than try to cover your *** with ludicrous new pieces of nonsense.

Answer 2

there have been weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq - How do all of us comprehend? because of the fact we offered them to the Iraqi's as quickly as we've been annoying approximately Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. We got here upon those WMD'sat the tip of the 1st Gulf conflict in a warehouse in Komashia - even with the undeniable fact that the servicemen have been advised to not take a itemizing and to easily bomb the warehouse to smithereens. Why take no inventory? nicely if we had accomplished so we'd have had to instruct the place the weapons got here from - and that could purely be a techniques too embarrassing because of the fact the labels have been in English, American and French. Having not taken a itemizing we had no theory whether all the weapons we had offered / given to Saddam Hussein in Iraq, while pitted against Ayatollah Khomeini, have been got here upon. So we did not comprehend if there have been different WMDs stored someplace else. It replaced into ineptitude on our section not understanding whether there have been nevertheless any WMDs - even with the undeniable fact that our governments needed to invade Iraq - not because of the fact of 9/eleven yet because of the fact of their oil aspects and 9/eleven replaced right into a handy excuse. i think of they appeared severe and occasional for WMDs - yet frankly there purely weren't any - even with attempting to fabricate them out of thin air with diverse propaganda tries - none of which succeeded.

Answer 3

Well....they have said part of the story:..."There are no WMD in Iraq...." but they have left the OTHER information they have on it out...."...because they are in Syria"!

WMD are in Syria:

http://www.nysun.com/article/26514...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jht...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news...

http://washingtontimes.com/national/2004...

http://www.2la.org/syria/iraq-wmd.php...

, ...since they and Saddam were pals (BAATH party is from Syria)!!!!!!!!

so to say "no WMD in Iraq" is stupid and you are jumping the gun, since it will be YEARS before the real truth of what has happened there will be know,

they CAN'T right now say what they know because THEN we would HAVE TO attack Syria, and with what Army may I ask?????, when our forces are tiny thanks to the military cuts in the 90's!!!

so no, if you want to criticize Bush do for what I do, and that is for NOT doing the occupation right!!!!

but on WMDs jury STILL out and you and all "civis" here have no clue what really has happened!

and the Bush guys are not going to tell you what they know about the stuff been in Syria, because then if those weapons are suuuuccchhhhh.... a big deal we would have to then go to war with Syria too, wouldn't we?

the story is NOT over on the WMDs!

Answer 4

What the H**L is RLP talking about?? These WMDs where suppose to be bioweapons and nuclear weapons. how are you going to dump those without wiping out a bunch of people?
acid lakes?? and of course those couldn't have been created by mining and drilling fossil fuels, like they are here in the USA right??

Bush invaded Iraq, so Iran wouldn't take him out, jeopardizing out oil supply, and stumbling across the weapons Rummy gave him.

Answer 5

If Iraq had WMD don't you think Israel would have made the move first to destroy it like they did in the 80's when they bombed Saddam' s first nuclear project? You cannot hide the WMD facility from the outside world, if he had one USA need didn't have to search for it, but they didn't tell us that, right?

Answer 6

I still think he had them. They might not have shown up but I can't believe that half the world's nations had some evidence that indicated he had them and they not show up at all. I suspect that Saddam transfered them to some other country believing he would get them back.

Answer 7

WMDs--wuts that?! We went to Iraq to take out Saddam an to bring democracy for Irak. Mission accomplished.

Answer 8

Read MaHaa's blog about her cousin who is over there. There are ACID lakes. They dumped some stuff and got the rest out to other countries. It is a big place...they're there.
Why did EVERYONE think Saddam had them...hmmm? Because he DID!

Answer 9

WMDs? What WMDs? Common, even the White House knew there weren't any WMDs in Iraq.

Answer 10

Argle, most of these people think they can still find the remains of a wooden ark built 4,000 years ago if they just keep looking for it. It's the "X-Files" mentality - if it hasn't been found yet it must still be "out there".