WMDs found in Iraq. Have you all heard this on the news?

Question

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html

I just found this a few days ago, I have been putting it in several answers I have written about the war in Iraq since. Then I saw in a recent question that someone said we haven't found WMDs yet.

We have though. This report came out around this time last year. I have not heard about any of it on the news. I was just wondering if any of you had heard this before.

Response: They were still lethal WMDs.

If you read the whole article, it said that Saddam still lied about not having them.

I thought we were just looking for WMDs...now that we have found them, they are not the right ones? I though a WMD was a WMD...i didn't know it didn't count if it was made before 1991. My mistake.

SvetlanaFunGirl: If you read the article, you would've read that they were still lethal WMDs.

rbanzai: And again I say, if you had read the article, you would know that they were still lethal WMDs.

A WMD is a WMD. We went in because we thought he had WMDs and he could have sold them to terrorists. Demcrats even said he was making WMDs and they said he needed to be taken out:

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

Adam S: Fox news must not be that bad if it is America's most watched news channel!

Chicago: I really tried finding another source, but couldn't. Well, I found a few, but they were not from credible news sources...such as jihadwatch.org, and other ones. I couldn't find anything on NBC, CBS, or ABC.

This could mean that Fox was lying, or it just goes to show how biased other news sources are. The report comes from the National Ground Intelligence center, and they are a very credible source to me. Who reported on it does not really matter. The fact is we found WMDs.

gratvol: And again I say: If you had read the article you would have noticed that the NGIC report concluded that the WMDs were still lethal.

Peter D: read Jube's answer. It says it right on.

They found evidence that Saddam had been trying to build a nuclear weapon. He was trying to build them before the first Gulf War. The man was insane. He killed and gassed his own people. If you read the quotes from Bill Clinton and John Kerry (above), you will see that they even said that Saddam was building WMDs and was a threat that needed to be dealt with.

Rocco R: I didn't know there was such a thing as 'Bushco'

Oh, and Fox, or Faux, whichever you prefer, must not be that awful seems how it is the number one watched news channel by Americans.

Sky: like I said above, they must not be that bad if they are the number one watched news show in the country.

It wasn't old news to me! I just found out about it a few days ago...says a lot about our media.

Ebenezerscroogexxx: If I can't trust fox, how can I trust any other source?

Pincollector, I'm glad you have a sense of humor...But, try answering the question next time.

Answer 1

Yeah I saw this too. Yes Fox did cover this news. It is
newsworthy. Not all of the WMD's are still viable, however does that make sense that we shouldn't be weary about them because "all" of them aren't still viable. Why would they have them if they weren't prepared to use them? and hwo are they prepared to use them on? HMMMmmm......oh yeah us. The good ol USA and Israel who by the way Iraq and their big-brother Iran won't even recognize as a sovereign nation. I think the most recent WMD's are still hidden. The surrounding countries are Islamic terrorist allies and I think they were spread and hidden in different places when word of the Americans coming after them were revealed. the truth will come out sooner or later and guess who will be reporting it. FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

If it have been actual that they stumbled on the WMD's that the administration went on and on and on and on approximately then Bush and his cronies could be screaming if from the mountain tops. the reality that they stumbled on a inventory pile of previous, ineffective ordinance from beforehand the 1st gulf conflict would not make the administration's previous declare so. There at the instant are not any WMD's that they claimed have been there. there is no longer something there to reason that ominous "mushroom cloud" that Condi LIED approximately. It in simple terms advance into no longer and is no longer actual. end eating the administration Kool-help and think of for your self!

Answer 3

It figures that something like this would be put out by Fox News. Or should I call them what they REALLY are, FAUX News.
These WMDs are some of the things that the US gave to Iraq, to fight the Iranians, back in the Reagan administration.

You should realize that Fox News is nothing more than a propaganda machine for Bushco, Inc. They repeat every talking point, word for word. They fail to see the crimes that this administration has committed. People on Faux News, like Bill O'Reilly, pride their organization, in that they do not show the violence going on in Iraq. Bill O says that it would not be good for the troops. He should say that it would not inform the American public. When someone disagrees with Mr. O'Reilly, he ALWAYS says that they are not patriotic, or puts them down. I have never heard or seen him give a person a chance to voice an opposing view to his. He just talks over them, and tries to change the subject.

This country was formed by people who spoke out against a tyrannical government. As such, a TRUE patriot, cares so much for his or her country, that he is compelled to speak out when this government does something that is totally wrong. Some would have us believe that if we speak ill of our government, we should be hanged for treason. If the Founding Fathers felt this way, we would be eating tea and crumpets, and speaking the King's English, and still be a Colony of Great Britain!

Answer 4

*sigh*

Bush: America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

The implication was that the Iraqis were developing NUCLEAR weapons (not chemical weapons) which would them be used against US targets. Remember the aluminum tubes argument? Cheney and Rice said there was "irrefutable" evidence that Iraq has aluminum tubes and that those aluminum tubes could only be used to develop nuclear weapons.

We knew since the 80s that Hussein had chemical and/or biological weapons. Remember, he was our ally. We might even have supplied them to him to be used in his battle against Iran.

The reason you haven't heard about it on the news is because it's no surprise that he *still* had old, busted up WMDs that we already knew he at least at one time possessed. The reason you didn't hear about it on the news is that no one found a nuclear program which would produce *nuclear* WMDs to be used against the US.

EDIT: I did read Jube's rant. It reads like satire. I have a difficult time believing anyone is so out of touch with reality. It has to be written tongue-in-cheek.

I am so sick of the "he gassed his own people" line. First of all, he didn't gas his own people. He gassed ethnic (and sepratist) Kurds who happened to be within Iraqi borders. Why do you and so many people not understand this? Those Kurds were engaged in violent revolt. This doesn't justify his actions, but it does show that he was wiping out an ethnic group that opposed him rather than just a bunch of people walking around a park somewhere.

He was a barbarian, but he was a barbarian among barbarians. We do not invade countries in reaction to what he did to "his own people". We invaded because he had nuclear WMDs that were pointed at the US and because Iraq was responsible for 9/11. So quit moving the goal poast.

Answer 5

As far as I'm concerned this whole WMD thing is a non-issue. Anyone who paid attention to world affairs the last 20 years knows they were there. He openly used them to kill his own people. Just because Saddam got them into Syria before the war started doesn't mean they never existed. The biggest mistake we made was not going in and getting them in 1991 when we had them beat. I just wonder if all these people who keeping saying we need to get out of Iraq right now would volunteer to go live there if we do.

Answer 6

Again?

Wow. Reycled old news with a new spin!

Straight from the mouth of Fox News: You're #1 source for lies and distortions--24/7.

Answer 7

Like 006 said these were old, leftover artillery shells from the time of the first Gulf War, and earlier. Some of them would still be viable, many would not as the chemical components are not stable and degrade over time, especially when exposed to high heat.

EDIT: We were led to believe that Iraq was actively developing and manufacturing new weapons of mass destruction, including a nuclear weapons program. That was trumpeted as a primary cause for the invasion, not a stockpile of old, mostly non-viable artillery shells.

Answer 8

That is not the reason we went to Iraq.

The American public was told that Iraq is building and has WMD's that are a threat to our national security. That is why we have to go their.

Some 15 year old gas artillery shells were more a danger to the Iraqis handling them than anyone else.

Answer 9

I laugh at your ignorance!

Of course I haven't heard this. I only read/watch REAL news, not Faux News. And there's nothing NEW about this.

Are you really that ignorant, or are you just trying to be funny?

Answer 10

All you Bush Haters out there. Do you expect to find anything good, correct, or accurately reported by the Elite Media? I've said it before and I'll continue to say it. All you Flamers are suffering from S.M.S (Selective Memory Syndrome) where George Bush and his Administartion is concerned. You continue to hide your heads where the sun don't shine so you can denigrate whatever points to victory between now and January of 2009 for George W. Bush and the Conservative Movement.

The media continues to hide, distort and not report anything "good" happening in Iraq. The Liberal-led U.S. Congress have bought this war and they can't afford to lose any of it. This Congress is morally unfit, bankrupt and dishonest in their dealings with the People Of The U. S. They continue to have the willing support of the left-wing kooks, print and electronic media.

FOX News is just about the most believable outlet for what is going on in the world today. They too are subject to the same reporting guidelines the other agencies fail to adhere to. FOX reported this situation accurately and even backed up with interviews of Schruer, who was the AEIA's man on the ground in Iraq. Yet there was not one peep out of the rest of the media, in any form, in an attempt to discredit FOX and Schruer over this find.

The age of the munitions, whatever they where, is a "Red Herring" as put up by the nut bar, kooky left and used in this thread as an excuse. Did Blick specify any munitions dated before August of 1990? No, he did not. Nor did the UN when they issued directives for enforcement of Res. 1440.

What's it going to be tomorrow, Flamers? You have no clue, don't know what one looks like and wouldn't know where to look for one.

Continue to read those publications, bloggers and watch the Left-wing news in action. One day you'll wake up and really be concerned about what is about to happen to you, your life style and your families.