On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:43:39 +0000, Pooh Bear
No, 2002 - plus the whole of the Clinton administration got the same story, for the entirity of its stay in office.
No, they didn't destroy anything. Turns out that, if you believe the surviving Iraqis that tell it, the WMD's were destroyed by Iraqis themselves sometime in the mid-90s. However, it was done in secret, and the false story was promoted that they still had them, probably so as to scare Iran, Syria, et. al. out of attacking.
Hate's too strong a word, but we certainly don't trust 'em.
Yep - but if our Democrat controlled congress hadn't declared the CIA to be an evil enbreasty, and defunded them to the extent that they couldn't maintain a credible spy network (boots on the ground, so to speak) and instead had them trying to do everything with satellites, then maybe we'd have had a bit more truth available to us. But, as it was, it was a seriously awful chance to take that maybe Saddam -was- about to perfect a nuclear weapon, and maybe Saddam would give it to a bunch of persons and maybe they would level NYC. It was worth going into Iraq for just that reason alone.
Well, we know that he didn't have WMDs - as far as a threat, he shot at our aircraft almost every day.
Float a 5 megaton device into New York harbor on some cargo ship, if they got the chance.
Dave Head
