WMD's Found!

[carrrnuttt]

NOT.

[KustmAce]

"I felt like we'd find weapons of mass destruction"

Im sure lots of murderers feel they will get away with it too.

I think our goverment should make its decisions based on more than just one guy's feelings. Especially decisions costing billions of dollars and thousands of lives.

BTW carrrnuttt, I didnt believe your title for a second! If he really did find em, I think Yogs wouldve beat you to it.

[jon@af]

Yup. Pisses me off everytime I think about it.

[YogsVR4]

Sweet!

[Heep]

"Based on what we know today, the president would have taken the same action because this is about protecting the American people," said Press Secretary Scott McClellan.

Ha! So that's why so many US soldiers (aka American people) needlessly lost their lives?

"Who knows what they are going to do?" asked Thielmann, who left his position in September 2002. "One can question whether we improved the security situation through the invasion."

He can say that again. All the U.S. did is make even more enemies.

It's time for Bush to stand up and say he really invaded Iraq because he wanted to...

[fredjacksonsan]

It's about oil, but of course someone can now say the WMD's are buried in the desert somewhere.

[taranaki]

The correct argument in favour of WMD seems to now be...'prove that they never existed'.

My reply to that is.......If I asked you to prove that the President never had sex with an elephant, you couldn't.However, the fact that you cant prove he didn't doesn't add up to any proof that he did.

All I will ask, for the umpteenth time, is .........why, when 'intelligence' suggested that Saddam had the capability to deploy WND at 45 minutes notice has nobody ever found any sign of them, or a factory capable of manufacturing them.?

It's been two years almost since Bush sent his troops in.They've not seen any sign that these weapons ever existed.They've tried posting huge rewards for information.They've promised key Iraqis new lives in America if they can betray Saddam.They've illegally detained and tortured people to try and find the information that might just justify their theft of Iraq...but nothing.

Somebody,please, prove that these weapons were ever more than wishful thinking.I'm sure George would be eternally grateful if you could, because right now, the truth is making him look as dumb as a rock.

[fredjacksonsan]

I think he needed/wanted a reason to go in, and the intelligence was skewed to give him what he wanted.

Should have removed Saddam in 91, then this debacle wouldn't have had to happen.

[taranaki]

Originally Posted by fredjacksonsan

I think he needed/wanted a reason to go in, and the intelligence was skewed to give him what he wanted.

10-08-2002.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbul...23&postcount=6

[fredjacksonsan]

There we go; you said it truly.

But to play devils advocate, why the shell game with the inspectors? What about the video evidence that numerous trucks departed from factories minutes (sometimes less than a minute) prior to the inspectors' arrival? Is it possible that WMD's are buried out in the desert somewhere?

[TRD2000]

Sure it's possible, but it's probably equally possible that georgie did in fact boof the elephant, after all i'm sure hes had more time with nobody looking, and there were the drugs. If the trucks etc were percieved as such a possibility surely they would have been tracked and inspectors could have been re-routed to inspect them, sounds easier than a war doesn't it?

[fredjacksonsan]

Agreed; and with the current movie technology, the trucks could have easily been inserted into the grainy video that was shot from ground level.

[Cbass]

Where to start where to start... I leave these forums for a little while and everything goes to hell.

No WMD's in Iraq? Damn it, I guess I was completely wrong... no wait, I wasn't.

What better way to protect the American people than to stick some hundreds of thousands of them in harms way for neocon ideology?

Naki, that was 10/07/2002 btw


Once more, I will state there is a glaring problem with the "they could be buried in the desert!" bleating. The US has some of the most sophisticated satellite based ground penetrating radar there is. Anything store in a metal container bigger than one foot by one foot will show up easily if they're looking for it, and believe me, they would have looked for it. Any significant stockpile stored even in plastic containers would easily be spotted as a depression filled with a completely different type of media than the surrounding desert. EASY TO SPOT.

After the satellite spots it, you send a ground team with much more accurate ground penetrating sonar equipment, and you'll find out exactly what is down there. This is the same equipment paleotologists use to locate small dinosaur skeletons and human remains, it is more than accurate enough to determine if there is even a tupperware container full of bread mold down there, let alone thousands of kilos of anthrax.

GIVE IT UP.

It's good to poke my head back in here again

[2strokebloke]

So is anybody keeping track of just how many stupid points GWB is racking up?
Hmmmm, those imaginary WMDs, boy howdy - Saddam really fooled the crap out ol' Bush Jr. doesn't take much to fool an idiot though.

[Cbass]

The scary part of this is the US reaction about the intelligence failure. "We need better intelligence! We need a single agency that coordinates all other intelligence agencies, and a one man to oversee it all!" Wasn't this what they said after the 911 Commission findings as well?

Call me paranoid, but this has tones of 1984 written all over it.