How is it that according to Bush there "were no WMD," and yet Iran currently has an established nuclear progr

Question

Bush initially took us to war with Iraq under the alleged premise that there were WMD there. But after an extensive weapons inspection which turned up negative, Bush subsequently decreed that there "were no WMD in Iraq", an "admission" which I have to admit I thought was a little strange since Bush never admitted he was wrong, but also because there was an obvious reason why WMD may not have been found in Iraq, namely because they could simply have been previously moved OUT of Iraq and into a neighboring country (Syria, Iran, e.t.c.). I have likewise maintained since Bush's admission that the WMD could have been moved out of Iraq and into another country, while others have claimed that such a move would have been impossible to pull off undetected.

Fast forward a few years, and Iran, one of the very neighboring countries to which others have maintained WMD could not have been moved now has an established nuclear program, which not only does Bush refuse to acknowledge/talk about (as in his most recent press conference), but poses an even bigger threat to the United States then was present at the time of our initial invasion! How is it that so many people could have maintained that there simply "were no WMD" when the WMD could so obviously have just been previously moved out of Iraq and into a neighboring country, which has now been proven via the Iranian nuclear program? I don't understand it. Were you all just agreeing with Bush, thinking that there simply "were no WMD" just because none were found in IRAQ? Or was it something else? I just don't understand how so many people could not have acknowledge that the WMD could have been previously moved out of Iraq and into another country.

Answer 1

Iran has been developing their own nuclear program and needed no help from Iraq. The fact that Iraq used WMD's on their own people is proof enough that they existed. Where they are now. who knows? Possibly Syria or buried in the desert.

Answer 2

If they were moved they would more likely be in Syria.Saddam hated Iran more than he hated us,he wouldn't give them anything.Backtrack to 9/11.When we ousted the Taliban I knew Saddam was next.If I knew he was next then surely he did.He had two years to plan for it.He could have moved them out,or he just could have buried them in the middle of the desert.I also keep saying this and for good reason.The shell full of sarin that they tried using as a roadside bomb had to of come from somewhere.A couple of weeks after we toppled Saddam,three hundred liters of sarin nerve agent was found in a shack.I remember CNN reporting on it but they say nothing now.Before we went into Iraq,U.N. weapons inspectors found empty warheads specifically designed to be armed with chemical agents.If they didn't have WMD's then why would they need those kind of warheads? That's something the media never seems to mention anymore.Anybody who is hiding those kind of weapons would hide the warheads in one place and the chemical agents in another.Saddam was Iran's greatest opponent.Now with him out of the picture they are now stirring up a bunch of crap.Iran never got any technology from Iraq.Their nuclear program is their own work.But on the other hand,you're right when you say they are a bigger threat than Saddam was.Either way,we need to give them an a** kicking.If we don't then Israel will,and if they do it,all hell will break loose.

Answer 3

Don't you understand by now that the public is being lied to by ALL of the kooks on capitol hill? What's going to happen is what is because of the spineless public.

nobody wants to demand accountability from these elected
gangsters and we are now midway into a total dictatorship
especially if Hillary get elected. Not that a republican would not do the same because both parties are actually one in the same.

When do you ever hear these flunkies talk about real issues
and solutions, NEVER! The people MUST take back this country or else!

Answer 4

of course there were WMD in iraq. They hid them in underground bunkers and knew BUSH was goin to invade shortly after 911, so they got all their friggin terrorist buddies to move/store/hide them as well. Until things blew over.

HOW BUSH Himself ever agreed to suggest he might be wrong about the WMD is beyond me.. he should have always stated that they haven't found them YET!

Its amazing now that we have to be so careful about offending anyone. The friggin terrorists locked up in quantoamo bay are innocent bystanders. We dare not say anything against illegal immigrants. We dare no mention that IRAN is a friggin time bomb. Whatever happened to AMERICA?? Thats what I would like to know..

Answer 5

Actually according to intel he was given by the previous administration Iraq had an ongoing WMD development and production program. And his biggest mistake was to believe them, after all was Clinton known to lie?

Answer 6

Iran... of course, it all makes sense now.
The Iraq invasion was just a typo, just change one letter on Iraq and it is Iran.
Oh well, no harm no foul.

I shudder at American stupidity sometimes.