Finally-- White House will release postwar Iraq and Afghanistan documents
03.14.06 (2:45 am) [edit]The release could answer a whole slew of questions regarding Iraq's WMD. While it will never shut up the "Bush lied" crowd (which is ironic because the Bill Clinton and the UN, not Bush, said that Iraq had WMD-- Bush was just enforcing already established law),those critics that are sane human beings might just end up feeling embarassed that they sided with such malicious, unfair, attacks on the president.
Article-- http://www.weeklystandard.com...
posted by: surrogate (reply)
post date: 03.14.06 (1:19 am)
The law in place called for inspections, which were still going on when GWB recalled the inspectors so he could bomb the bejesus out of 'em. But you know that I'm sure. It doesn't lend credence to your spurious argument though so you'll "forget" it. Of course Iraq had WMD's. Hence the inspection to make sure they were no longer producing them. By the way, do you have so little faith in the interrogation techniques of our military that they wouldn't have gotten the exact location of all the "moved" WMD's from Saddam himself within hours of his being captured? You know damn well that if they still existed in any meaningful quantity, they'd have gone and retrieved them pronto. Think he's such an super-human evil bastard that they couldn't make him talk? Maybe so.
posted by: reducto (reply)
post date: 03.14.06 (1:29 am)
Reply to: surrogate
See, you're not going to get away with your rewrite of history. The inspections had not been taking place since 1998. Then Saddam let inspections take place in 2002 to buy time-- he didn't allow the inspectors to go where they needed to go. Finally, Hussein did not abide by the deadline set by the UNSC resolution (Dec 8 I do believe). Hence, he broke the law again.
By the way, why were there inspectors in the first place? Because Hussein broke the law you jackass! The law was for Hussein to destroy his WMD and for the UN teams TO VERIFY THAT HE HAD DONE SO. What this ended up being was a decade-long scavenger hunt to find the WMD Hussein didn't or would not destroy and destroy them. So from the outset, Surrogate, Hussein broke the terms of his own cease fire. And I think you know what happens when a cease-fire is broken...
And, Surrogate, let's say that Hussein did tell US soldiers where they were. All available intel points to Syria. Do you think Syria would allow the US in? More to the point, do you think the rest of the world, including Syria's leader Iran, would?
I mean, this is a world body that got pissed because the US tried to enforce the UN's own laws against the Hussein regime. Invading Syria, a terror state, to get to Saddam's WMD might be at least mildly opposed.
Don't be a moron.