Iraq Possesses Weapons Of Mass Destruction That Pose A Clear And Present Danger To The UK...?

Question

...does anyone remember the Labour party saying this, or was I imagining it?

Answer 1

Goddammit Elvis you have a good memory! I think New labour would wish you did'nt. What a mess they made!

Answer 2

Canam, you are stuck in outfield somewhere, so let me enlighten you a little. Prior to the invasion, there were inspectors on a job. Some will argue that the job they were doing was taking too long, or not producing results fast enough. When you have most of the free world agreeing to this type of securing of a rogue nation like Iraq, it's best to work with them than against them. Certainly there were underhanded deals conducted by many nations with the former dictatorship. The rush for war was most probably encouraged by a large group favoring defense and keeping the economy going. 911 may have been the spark, and the subsequent outcry without digesting all the related facts induced a war cry no matter the consequences or conclusion. Thus, events of the 1960's are repeated almost exactly the same in the 2000's. A taxpayer burden calculated close to 10% of the national debt is the result of those hasty actions taken. Since nobody wants to face the buldging national debt, and certainly corporations shun income taxes more than individuals do, we are gliding in a strange fiscal conflict where not one politician seems interested in discussing the debtload the U.S. now bears. 94% of U.S. debt is being purchases by other nations, since Americans don't earn enough on jobs to buy a piece of it. Trying to secure a nation with fiscal problems is extremely difficult knowing that the nation is foreign owned and influenced. The above scenerio has taken place while the populace was sleeping. What the economists and planners seek now is that the U.S. consumers keep consuming, rather than show any interest in gaining quality enployment with secure jobs. The fascination with foreign attacks and possibilities of weapons that will cause incalcuable destruction is encouraging the need for troop buildup where this can be done more efficiently through the use of technological means for identifying and destroying those who would want to destroy all the U.S. holds dear. Call it luck that no similar attacks have happened, and no doubt present administration will be looked upon kindly in the history books. Seems that there are plans and design being conducted where most are not privy to, and when you imagine that a nation like Saudi Arabia who owns a good chunk of U.S. due to it's dependence on their oil, has ties to subversive groups...it confuses the issue as to why Iraq. The proliferation of capitalism throughout the world has placed the U.S. in a difficult position of being a policeman about to go bankrupt. It would be to the advantage of everyone had the U.S. focused more on the economic malaise within that doesn't get families intact or provide for the necessities as it should. Perhaps Obama sensed all this, while others just joined in on a perpetual witch hunt. Having the troops at home would have better served catastrophes like Katrina. Money wasted on foreign endeavors are being borne by you, me, and generations to come.

Answer 3

Remeber this.
Last year the Freedom of Information Act (in the US) was used to obtain papers from the Pentagon documenting nearly 600 instances were colition forces in Iraq recovered WMD.

Why Bush and Blair covered up these finds?....I certainly don't know.
What I do know is that the leftist media has been clobbering these two "geniuses" for years over the subject, and our leaders have had the evidence to contradict the eronious claims all along.

It don't figure!

Answer 4

I don't remember the labour party saying it.. but if they did.. they likely believed the crap coming out of our White House from the story teller in office.

Did they get their cut on the oil as he promised by the way?

Answer 5

Yes they did. But so did Bush, Cheney and company. The difference is the British people are a lot more upset over it than American people.

Answer 6

Most everyone in the United Kingdom, and Democrats and Republicans in the United States believed this to be true. There is no question that at one time, Hussein did have them and used them against his own people which is a fact. Some say they are now in Syria possibly but we will probably never know.

Answer 7

And it was the Conservative party who sold arms to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s, and together with the Americans, helped to train Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.

Answer 8

Lots of people said that.
That includes Clinton, Bush and whole host of Democrats and Republicans.

Yes even Hillary.

Answer 9

Several countries arrived at the same conclusion based on their individual intelligence sources. Although we didn't find the smoking gun as of late, we knew he had them and used them on his own people. It's just that we don't know what he did with his stockpiles.

Answer 10

I remember MI6 saying it and the Tories also believing it.