Saddam did have WMD, but they were all smuggled into Syria before Bush launched his invasion. True or False?

Question

I keep hearing this rightwing talking point repeated OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

But if it is true, WHY IS THERE NOT ONE CASE OF A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL OR GOVERNMENT REPORT STATING IT?

If there was any evidence of this, WOULDN'T BUSH'S GOVERNMENT BE WAVING IT IN OUR FACES?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14728447/

Senate report: No Saddam, al-Qaida link
Long-awaited analysis also finds that anti-Saddam group misled U.S.

Updated: 3:31 p.m. ET Sept 8, 2006
WASHINGTON - There’s no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida, according to a Senate report issued Friday on prewar intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President Bush’s justification for invading Iraq.


The declassified document released Friday by the intelligence committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.

It concludes that postwar findings do not support a 2002 intelligence community report that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program, possessed biological weapons or ever developed mobile facilities for producing biological warfare agents.

IF YOU SAY IT'S TRUE, PLEASE PROVIDE A LINK TO A CREDIBLE SOURCE TO BACK UP YOUR CLAIM.

THANKS.

Answer 1

Biggest lie ever told.

Why would Saddam spend years and millions of dollars developing WMD, then give them away instead of using them to defend his country against an unprovoked invasion and save his own life?

The barking right-wing moonbats are yanking your chain.

Answer 2

It would be hard to smuggle something the doesn't exist. It's doubful if Syria would want to put itself in a position like that. If Saddam had this stuff of course he would have used it...if the Klingons invaded the US you can bet we'd use anything available to repel boarders....why wouldn't Iraq? Last, considering all the surveilence at the time it would have been hard to not notice a fleet of trucks crossing the border...and then there would have to hsave been someplace to drop off all these WMD....that would be hard to hide as well. Fergetaboutit!

Answer 3

False. This claim was made by one former citizen of Iraq who worked at some level in the government (don't recall how high up). He's gone on a few shows in the US saying "oh yeah, Saddam had WMDs but he transported them out of the country before the attack" but nobody else has substantiated his claims. If it were even remotely plausible the Bush Admin would be making this claim on a daily basis.

If they still say that bin Laden and Saddam were working together but don't say that the WMDs were transported out of Iraq before the war, that tells you how true the latter statement is.

Answer 4

it's probably a lie

to answer the other question, we didn't go into Syria same reason we don't go into Iran and the Israelis high-tailed it out of Lebanon. Because they are all armed to the teeth with scary Russian missiles.

Bush needs a plan B... Same as plan A... another 9.11 and some renewed enthusiasm for putting American soldiers in harms way.

And don't look at me like that. Computers run on oil too, or did you think only assholes with SUV's wasted oil. Our whole economy runs on oil. Without it we can go back to living in caves and eating grubs and ants like they do in Africa. Is that what you want, to eat bugs like some starving 3rd world peasant?

Answer 5

Here's the deal . Days before the invasion convoys of trucks were seen exiting Iraq and entering Syria . We don't know what was on those trucks but read a little further . After those trucks entered Syria , they made their way to a remote area of the desert in the Bekaa Valley . Then , mysteriously , Syria sent it's best brigade to guard those trucks . This is documented and certified with satelite imaging . That brigade stayed out in the desert for months .
So , yes , we cannot be sure , but you tell me what Syria's best brigade was doing out in the middle of nowhere guarding 'trucks' ?

Answer 6

Basically your question is:

The government lied about WMDs in Iraq, so why haven't they come out with a report that says the WMDs were transported to Syria?

If you believe the government lied to you, why would you look to the same people for evidence disproving the lie? Doesn't really make too much sense, does it?

Answer 7

@ Jeremiah: The operative consideration in the WMD controversy is this: ". . .the weapons not accounted for by the United Nations remain unaccounted for.".

Answer 8

There is no proof that they ever existed. That's just Bush's theory to get us into Iraq.

Answer 9

hey genius they did find weapons , and trucks that were capable of producing them
but you would never hear that info
just because they didn't find a giant bomb that said
" acme wmd" on the side,
does not mean it was a lie\
I guess your the kind of guy who would willingly cough over his money to bully's every day on the way to work ? right ?

Answer 10

If this is true then why didn't we go into Syria.. I thought finding the WMD's was the whole point? o.O