Reply With QuoteDuh.
It took them this long to admit this?
MSNBCWASHINGTON - The Bush administration is apparently ready to abandon a major reason it gave the world for going to war with Iraq: Saddam Hussein’s purported storehouses of chemical and biological weapons the administration said he was prepared to use against the United States.
Secretary of State Colin Powell, who made the claim in a dramatic prewar presentation to a skeptical United Nations in 2003, virtually withdrew it Monday during testimony before the Senate Government Affairs Committee.
“There was every reason to believe there were stockpiles,” Powell said. “There was a question about the size of stockpiles, but we all believed there were stockpiles.”
However, Powell said in response to questions from Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, “it turned out that we have not found any stockpiles.” Moreover, Powell said, “I think it is unlikely that we will find any stockpiles.”
Duh.
Its only funny because apparently they were still holding out hope that there might be some.
They're in Syria idiots!
Yep, they're in Syria..and, it ain't funny.
What's funny is how you still fall for this administration's lies.
Talk about a major FLIP-FLOP!!!!!
Yeah, a Saddam Hussein Flip-Flop. He threatened to use them...who knew he'd ship 'em to Assad instead.
Don't give up hope. I'm sure they'll turn up tomorrow. We know exactly where they are. Hope is on the way!
So, why the **** aren't we invading SYRIA? They are a rogue Ba'athist nation with ties to terrorism, and apparently now have WMDs. Enquiring minds want to know...
In due time.
The Democrats should be hitting the administration here, and hard. Cancel the Kitty Kelley interviews, quit talking about 1972, and demand accountability for the failure to find WMDs.
It's like sitting Barry Bonds on the bench and starting Ricky Ledee in left during the pennant race.
Yeah, 'cuz that was such a winning topic last year.
It's better than dragging up the National Guard story again.
Kerry held a lead in many of the polls when the country remembered we were in a controversial war.
Yeah, but he's already said he's in favor of the war...so, can't go back.
If they're in Syria, why doesn't everyone in the administration say so every time it's brought up?
How can anyone deny he had them? I mean..he USED them! My biggest fear about them not being in Iraq..is WHERE did they get shipped off to?
No one ever denied his having them. The debate is over how many were destroyed after the war and if he had anything close to a stockpile when the decision was made to invade.
If all they had to do was give it to Snowman and go westbound and down to Syria, we had a piss poor battle plan.
Take what? Where?
I remember hearing early on that we were tracking trucks headed to syria that they were su ious of, Russia had provided them with scrambling devices that jammed us long enough to lose track of them. If it wasn't something illegal, why would it be scrambled?
I heard the drivers wore aluminum foil on their willies to avoid detection.
Put what? On my where?
Apparently every intel agency of note on the planet as well as the prior administration thought he had them. Now why didn't we know for sure? Might it have been that Hussein spent the better part of a decade being generally uncooperative and shooting at UK and US aircraft? Then again perhaps the Neocons in conjunction with Big Bird and Lou Rawls wanted to fight the war "for oil" as any strung out brain dead goth chick with her clit pierced will tell you.
We ed around for the better part of 30 years in not dealing with Islamist terrorism and it came back to bite us hard. Now we want to go back to the good old days of ignoring the crazy ers in the ME and counting on their good intentions to leave us alone.
**** this Monday morning QBing. You deal with the threats or you end up watching 3,000 of your fellow citizens die in spectacular fashion live. Probably more the next time if we aren't lucky.
Like getting the supposed WMDs before they supposedly leave Iraq?You deal with the threats
Agreed.
If the intel was bad then it was bad. Problem is that everyone and their dog thought Hussein was still loaded. What no one disagrees with today is that he still would be pursuing them if the was in power and that he had a fairly substantial bit of cash flow coming in to his regime. He was starting to support Islamist terrorism both rhetorically as well as financially. It's not hard to see someone who hated both Israel and the US so much hook up with al Qaida.
How popular would an invasion of Afghanistan been prior to 9/11?
How long did they go back & forth with the United Nations before anything was done?
How? If he didn't have them anymore, how could he get them?What no one disagrees with today is that he still would be pursuing them if the was in powerEspecially after he hooked up with us for so many years....It's not hard to see someone who hated both Israel and the US so much hook up with al Qaida.
Wasn't it like 16 months or so? That wouldn't have been enough time to get rid of anything he might have had?
Weren't their a lot of labs found by the US in Iraq that highly indicated the presence of chemicals used in WMD's?
I know I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.
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