What happened to the weapons of mass destruction?

Question

Why didn't the USA & UK mention
(during the build-up to invading Iraq),
that the Israeli intelligence services had reported,
during the 1990 Gulf war,
the WMD were "loaded onto planes..."

(For a transcript of the 1990 Gulf war, and this complete quote, see: http://www.the-alternative-org.uk
Full Book
Chapter 13: War).

Perhaps if someone intelligent had asked: Where were the planes heading? the war might not have gone ahead using the WMD as justification?

Answer 1

There were WMDs found in Iraq. Since 2003 there have been approximately 500 munitions recovered with degraded mustard gas and sarin nerve agent. The House Intelligence Committee has declassified this information, and concludes a strong probability of many more such WMDs as of yet undiscovered. It has been openly reported that insurgents and Iraq groups desire to obtain WMDs as weapons of terror for use against the US, UK, and any other nation they feel threatens Islam. The entire US Congress has received a memo verifying this, but somehow doesn't feel the need to let the American people know. I wonder why?

Answer 2

Do your research the war was over a lot more the WMDs, what about human rights, what about the killing of thousands of his own people, he lived in palaces while millions of his people starved, WMD? Who cares, if he did have them or if he did not that was not the "justification that we needed to take him out. If a country knowingly harbers terrorists then the govt of that country must fall for the greater good of the free world. It may take another 100 years but there people will be better off then they would have been without our intervention. War is Ugly and you can allways find faults in it. I do not beleive that innocent people should have to die and in war that will happen but in the end it is for the greater good. What if the US said you know what the Nazis in Europe does not concern us, where would you be then. Eventually probably when you are old and feable you will see that Iraq iss free and life there is better. Just like your life is better BECAUSE WE GOT INVOLVED IN WW2

Answer 3

We know Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Chemical for sure since the Pentagon still has our copies of the sales slip. We don't throw away the receipts. If your talking about nuclear though than I believe you heard it wrong. It was weapons of mass DISTRACTION.

Answer 4

exposing: your link to the alleged declassified CIA report on the FAS website contains not one reference to Syria.

Here's a link to a 2004 report from the CIA's adviser on Iraqi WMD:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/06/iraq.wmd.report/

It also might remind some of the people who posted here that indeed, the primary reason the American people were given for the urgent need to invade Iraq and depose Saddam were his WMDs, and the threat that he might pass them to al-Qaeda terrorists.

Both contentions are clearly ludicrous now, and honestly, the second one was already at the time Bush made them. The idea that the Wahabi jihadist al-Qaeda folks would want anything to do with a Ba'athist, secularist old-school Arab nationalist like Saddam is patently ridiculous. And it's clear now that Saddam had destroyed his stockpiles, but wanted the ability to reconstitute them once sanctions were lifted. Hardly the imminent threat that was painted at the time.

That said, Saddam was a naughty boy, and the world is a better place without him. However, I have met Iraqis living in the United States who are quite bitter about the current state of their country, and they blame us and wish they were back under Saddam.

Hopefully, there's still time to un-ruin their country before we hand it back to them and say see 'ya, but it does seem like the political clock is running out, just as it is on the Bush presidency (and legacy).

But as far as your last question is concerned: no, I'd have to say it appeared that the Bush administration was bent on removing Saddam and conducting their experiment with invasion on the cheap, so I don't think the presence or absence of WMD would have made much of a difference. They weren't interested in international law or opinion, and invaded without UN authorization. As Richard Armitage noted, the Bush administration idea of diplomacy is "Look, f#@%er, you do what we want."

Oh, and I'd be skeptical about anything reported by Israeli inteligence. It's not at all beneath them to inject a little black or gray propaganda into the mix to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

Answer 5

They are on the tips of all US munitions, its called depleted uranium. Don't believe the lies! Depleted uranium is a weapon of mass destruction, and the US has been using it on munitions since the first gulf war. Where do you think gulf war syndrome came from. Depleted Uranium. Its like a magician uses one hand to distract you, the other to do his deed. Is the US and Israel the only ones allowed to have the WMDs. I guess so!

How could some idiot give me a thumbs down for stating a fact. I urge people to see the truth. DU is poison, and radioactive.

Answer 6

There were quite a number of voices raised that said the justification for the second Iraqi war was unsound...

Those in power pushed ahead with their own adgenda and turned a deaf ear in that direction.

What a shame, too.


g-day!

Answer 7

Our congress took forever to give the ok to attack Sadam, which gave him months to move his WMDs. THere are satellite photos showing lines of trucks moving out of Iraq at nite, into Syria. Gee I wonder what was in the Trucks? Probably another shipment of food and humanitarian aid from Sadam...right Libs?? Its a FACT that Sadam used chemical weapons on his own people! Wake up, he had them and got rid of them.

Answer 8

This is for all of the "There were no WMD" in Iraq.

Most of you also hate Bush and say how evil he is, and how he will do anything to stay in power, yada yada yada.....if that were really so, then why wouldnt he have had plenty of WMD planted all over Iraq?

They were trucked to Syria.

Answer 9

WMDs (Weapons of Mass DECEPTION) were used here to fool people to think that we were after terrorists in Iraq. We were actually after the oil and control of the region.

If the WMDs (the destructive kind) did exist, and we knew that they were loaded onto planes, these planes would have been shot down or forced to land by the American/Coalition fighters. That is a load of BS.

Answer 10

It doesn't really matter whether wmds were found or not. Does it ? Reminds me of Aesop's fables, - A lamb was drinking from a stream when a wolf comes up to it and said, " you have polluted my water so I am going to eat you". The lamb answered, " but you are upstream so I cannot possibly polute your water". The wolf said, " I don't care, I am going to eat you anyway ".