Liberal Columnist asks "Could Bush have been right?"

Why do you think we are there?

Christ, Brandon, not THAT argument again. The only REASON given for invading Iraq was WMD's, or are you conveniently forgetting that one?

http://www.news-leader.com/today/0126-ManyIraqis-288077.html

The "flaw" is that our sole purpose for going into Iraq was because of the WMDs, and it was sold to us on a pack of lies. It wasn't ABOUT Democracy, as Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice and the rest assured us we'd go in and come right back out (remember?)

Bush failed miserably on the WMD fiasco, and so he relies on his corporate minions to turn this whole thing aroud and make it into a referendum for freedom and Democracy. And you embrace the ruse perfectly.

he "imperfections" in the Iraqi elections will NEVER be corrected (IMO), because we can't even deal with our OWN imperfections. At least WE don't vote in an occupied police state, but we're heading in that direction.

Invading Iraq was wrong. Bottom line. Saddam was not a threat, and hadn't been since 1991, and the billions spent on this bullshit war could have been used for more immediate concerns (medicare and medical).

There's nothing to celebrate here but a neocon's own stupidity in rejecting hindsight.

You mean all the holier and wiser than thou demokkkrats who've been squeeling and carrying on and leaving no stone unturned to obstruct this policy have been full of **** all along?

You're kidding me. Come on, say you're kidding me.....

I have never claimed to know much...but I know a little about the KKK. I'm just wondering if this was a typo Gunga...and if not, how the KKK can be infused into democratic ideology.

candidone1 wrote:

I have never claimed to know much...but I know a little about the KKK. I'm just wondering if this was a typo Gunga...and if not, how the KKK can be infused into democratic ideology.

You might want to call up Robert Byrd's office and ask somebody.

Q: What has been your biggest mistake and your biggest success?

A: Well, it's easy to state what has been my biggest mistake. The greatest mistake I ever made was joining the Ku Klux Klan. And I've said that many times. But one cannot erase what he has done. He can only change his ways and his thoughts. That was an albatross around my neck that I will always wear. You will read it in my obituary that I was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Well guess what? We pressured Saddam Hussein, and it turns out that he actually destroyed his weapons somwhere back in 1991.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/How-we-bought-the-WMD-lie/2005/01/30/1107020254944.html

Oh, the many lies...

Christ, Brandon, not THAT argument again. The only REASON given for invading Iraq was WMD's, or are you conveniently forgetting that one?

http://www.news-leader.com/today/0126-ManyIraqis-288077.html

The "flaw" is that our sole purpose for going into Iraq was because of the WMDs, and it was sold to us on a pack of lies. It wasn't ABOUT Democracy, as Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice and the rest assured us we'd go in and come right back out (remember?)

Bush failed miserably on the WMD fiasco, and so he relies on his corporate minions to turn this whole thing aroud and make it into a referendum for freedom and Democracy. And you embrace the ruse perfectly.

The "imperfections" in the Iraqi elections will NEVER be corrected (IMO), because we can't even deal with our OWN imperfections. At least WE don't vote in an occupied police state, but we're heading in that direction.

Invading Iraq was wrong. Bottom line. Saddam was not a threat, and hadn't been since 1991, and the billions spent on this bullshit war could have been used for more immediate concerns (medicare and medical).

There's nothing to celebrate here but a neocon's own stupidity in rejecting hindsight.

1. How do you know that his weapons were destroyed in 1991 as opposed to the week before the invasion?

2. Give me an example of a lie the Bush administration told about this, and do be sure to show that it wasn't a good faith error.

Since Hussein wanted sactions lifted, it's kind of odd that he didn't have real proof, e.g. videotapes, that the WMD he had possessed were destroyed. I guess we should have taken his word for it.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA is preparing retrospective reports to officially revise what proved to be faulty intelligence on Iraq's weapons capabilities before the 2003 invasion.

Among them is a document no more than a dozen pages entitled ``Iraq: No Large-Scale Chemical Warfare Efforts Since Early 1990s,'' said an intelligence official familiar with the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The report concludes that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein gave up his chemical weapons program after the 1991 Gulf War.

The Bush administration used the existence of weapons of mass destruction -- chemical, biological and nuclear weapons -- as a leading justification to overthrow the Iraqi government.

In a lengthy and now controversial prewar analysis, the intelligence community said that Saddam had probably stockpiled at least 100 metric tons, and potentially as much as 500 metric tons, of chemical weapons. ``Much of it added in the last year,'' the document said.

A senior Syrian journalist reports Iraq WMD located in three Syrian sites

06 January, 2004

AFP

Nizar Nayuf (Nayyouf-Nayyuf), a Syrian journalist who recently defected from Syria to Western Europe and is known for bravely challenging the Syrian regime, said in a letter Monday, January 5, to Dutch newspaper "De Telegraaf," that he knows the three sites where Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are kept. The storage places are:

-1- Tunnels dug under the town of al-Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria. These tunnels are an integral part of an underground factory, built by the North Koreans, for producing Syrian Scud missiles. Iraqi chemical weapons and long-range missiles are stored in these tunnels.

-2- The village of Tal Snan, north of the town of Salamija, where there is a big Syrian air force camp. Vital parts of Iraq's WMD are stored there.

-3-. The city of Sjinsjar on the Syrian border with the Lebanon, south of Homs city.

Nayouf writes that the transfer of Iraqi WMD to Syria was organized by the commanders of Saddam Hussein's Special Republican Guard, including General Shalish, with the help of Assif Shoakat , Bashar Assad's cousin. Shoakat is the CEO of Bhaha, an import/export company owned by the Assad family.

In February 2003, a month before America's invasion in Iraq, very few are aware about the efforts to bring the Weapons of Mass Destruction from Iraq to Syria, and the personal involvement of Bashar Assad and his family in the operation.
Nayouf, who has won prizes for journalistic integrity, says he wrote his letter because he has terminal cancer.

Click here for Satellite Images of the Syrian-Iraq's WMD Locations

http://www.2la.org/syria/wmd.html