The US government lied about WOMD, so why not lie & say they found tons of the stuff?

Question

They lied to get themselves in this position, y don't they lie to get themselves out?

Answer 1

They are liars, but remember they aren't very smart.

Answer 2

There is a huge difference between a lie and a mistake. Every intelligence agency in the world believe that Iraq had WMD. Saddam himself used them in the past and bragged about still having them. Tons of known weapons were unaccounted for by UN inspectors. Stores of precursor materials and biological weapons production facilities were found....albeit unused. And this makes sense....in that part of the world, especially, would you want to be sitting on battle ready munitions that could easily fall into the wrong hands when they munitions could be produced in a very short period of time as they are needed? Saddam was no dummy. He played a shell game and was doing fine until Bush called his bluff. If Saddam had just come clean and let the inspectors back in with unfettered access, he would still be alive and in power.

The simplistic, idiotic illogical conclusion that the lack of WMD in Iraq constitutes a willful lie on the part of President Bush is simply that....simplistic, idiotic and illogical.

BTW: In 1998, then President William Jefferson Clinton, your hero I presume, ordered a missile attack on Iraqi facilities. In President Clinton's address to the nation announcing the attack, his number 1 reason for launching it was Iraqi WMD. Now, if President Clinton believed it, as did everyone else...and there were no inspectors to refute this belief in the intervening years, how does anyone expect the Bush Admininstration to reach a different conclusion.

Answer 3

I'm sure they considered that option, but remember, under the kind of scrutiny they were under, the fraud would have been revealed, and they would be in an even worse position. The current administration is quite stupid in many ways, but they are not stupid in that way.

Hogie - No one, not even Hussein, denied that Iraq had gas weapons THEN. However, we claimed he still had them when we invaded. He said he didn't, the inspectors said he didn't, and it turned out he was telling the truth and we were the liars.

Answer 4

The problem of proof. If you claim something, you have to be able to prove it. There are too many different ways of tracking WoMD's to 'lose' a few from known stock.

Answer 5

All these lies keep you distracted from the true fact that they have no desire to represent you. Being in their position is a way to fill their own pockets under the guise of working for you. If they really worked for all of us we should fire them all and start over.

Answer 6

Because Seince we are at war, The people fear the government, and the country makes ALOT more money while at war.

Answer 7

But they are. Many Bushtards still claim to this day that WMDs were found in Iraq.

Answer 8

Its apparent that they didn't lie(or at the very least, guilty of wishful thinking) they're just really stupid.

Answer 9

Why don't you tell the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who were killed in a gas attack on their village by Hussein that Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction? Or are you claiming that a weapon that kills hundreds of thousands isn't a weapon of mass destruction?

Dumb ...

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Answer 10

Too much proof to the contrary.