Why do so many people claim Bush lied about WMD's in Iraq when it's been pr oven Saddam had them?

Answer 1

They also forget that ALL of congress is guilty on this! They passed the Iraq Liberation Act 360 -38 under Bill Clinton in 1998 and it was all about WMD's.

Answer 2

Saddam had CHEMICAL weapons-this was proven. He had mustard gas, he'd used it on us and on his own people.

However, they KNEW that the report was false. It came from a source called "Curveball" that key people knew was unreliable, as he had a history of making up intelligence.

The united states went to war based on "aluminum tubes" that Bush claimed was being used to make bombs. What he didn't explain was HOW-the aluminum tubes are generally used in centrifuges, used to enrich uranium (the same issue that we seem to be having with Iran right now.)

Do you know the SHEER NUMBER of tubes that would have been needed to enrich enough high grade uranium to make a functioning nuclear warhead?

Here's a hint: Saddam wasn't even close.

Show me this proof you have that Iraq had WMDS and I'll show you the lies and smokescreen of an administration bent on going after Saddam from the beginning.

Answer 3

Where is the evidence that claims wmd were in Iraq?according to what I have seen and read, the proof he gave congress was not accurate, and a lot of senators feel that if they have been told the truth, they would not have given the okay for war. He mislead his country, why do you think a lot of his staff has resigned, something is wrong with that.

Answer 4

Because the false assumptions about the yellowcake uranium from Niger, has made them deny every other atrocity committed by Saddam Hussein's regime, and conveniently deny that he was a supporter of terrorism. Furthermore, like most other weapons in Iraq, it was the former USSR who gave them the WMD's.

Answer 5

Bill Clinton thought Iraq had them too.

"In the next century, the community of nations may see more and more the very kind of threat Iraq poses now -- a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction ready to use them or provide them to terrorists, drug traffickers or organized criminals who travel the world among us unnoticed.

If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow by the knowledge that they can act with impunity, even in the face of a clear message from the United Nations Security Council and clear evidence of a weapons of mass destruction program."

President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998

[EDIT to witchiebunny]
Chemical weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction, because they have the potential to wipe out large groups of people. Here is a quote from Wikipedia:

Weapon of mass destruction (WMD) are weapons which can kill large numbers of human beings, animals and plants. The term covers several weapon types, including nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) and, increasingly, radiological weapons. There is controversy over when the term was first used, either in 1937 (in reference to the mass destruction of Guernica, Spain, by aerial bombardment) or in 1945 (with reference to nuclear weapons). Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and progressing through the Cold War, the term came to refer more to non-conventional weapons. The phrase entered widespread usage in relation to the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. Terms used in a military context include atomic, biological, and chemical warfare (ABC warfare), nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) after the invention of the hydrogen bomb, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN), recognizing the threat of subcritical radiological weapons.

Answer 6

If you count finding a couple for decades old depleted sarin shells WMD's then you will be completely floored by the arsenals the rest of the free world are sitting on.

Answer 7

Saddam may or may not have had them but none were found at the time of the invasion or anytime thereafter. Why is it you claim it's been proven. Show up or shut up! (Those old duds from the 80's don't count.)

Answer 8

An even easier question would be how can people say BUSH lied when he was using the intelligence gathered from Clintons term in office. Obviously then Clintons officers lied too then.

Answer 9

Kelly,Saddam got chemicals from a Dutch businessman who is now in prison. You cab Google it.

Answer 10

The only chemical weapons Saddam had he got from us!

Bush was referring to WMD's that are of a nuclear nature that Saddam DID NOT have!