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2015-02-16 Iraq

Do Reports of WMD Found in Iraq Vindicate George W. Bush?

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Posted by Fred 2015-02-16 12:44|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Now that it is no longer of use, the truth is noted and the MSM drumbeat of "no WMD", and "Bush lied, people died" can be forgotten. In the run up, the convoys of Iraqi vehicles moving warehouses full of something into Syria, and years later, the huge Syrian stockpiles of WMD chemicals discovered, certainly had no connection? God I hate the way these people just plain lie to the American people. Not merely use selective reporting, the sin of omission, but actual lies. God save the Republic from Obama and Hildebeast...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2015-02-16 14:53|| 2015-02-16 14:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Who knows, perhaps one of these was in the mix....

Posted by Pliny Lumumba7421 2015-02-16 15:00|| 2015-02-16 15:00|| Front Page Top

#3 If the Bush administration, after 2003, had decided to deliberately undermine its own credibility and delegitimize its policy what would they have done differently?

Whatever was gained by this policy of secrecy is to be balanced against the Western defeat in the 9/11 war and the disastrous erosion of Western deterrence.

This was not a wise decision.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-02-16 15:00|| 2015-02-16 15:00|| Front Page Top

#4
The other Bomba

Posted by Pliny Lumumba7421 2015-02-16 15:06|| 2015-02-16 15:06|| Front Page Top

#5 ...were contradicted by a 2004 CIA report that said there were no WMD stockpiles in Iraq,

Everyone involved in that report should be stripped of their pay and pensions as it was a deliberate attempt in effect to overthrow the lawful government of the US, one that they worked for, purely for their political agenda.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-02-16 15:44|| 2015-02-16 15:44|| Front Page Top

#6 If your narrative is that there.... 'was no WMD' then you have no need to explain the rather sordid measures used to get rid of it. If WMD surface at some future date, it can then be viewed as a mystery, or complete surprise, as opposed to evidence of a failed attempt at destruction.

If you hold with the narrative of 'no WMD' then the shipment of non-existent WMD to a third country need not be investigated.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-02-16 15:56|| 2015-02-16 15:56|| Front Page Top

#7 "The lie is already half way around the world by the time the Truth gets it's shoes on."

Posted by newc 2015-02-16 17:05|| 2015-02-16 17:05|| Front Page Top

#8 I tell liberals that months of Iraqi AD nodes lighting up American aircraft prior to Dubya's liberation of Iraq, was sufficient cause to go to war.

No other factor is relevant in my mind. You can argue WMDs or no WMDs, but you can't say that WMDs was the only cause for war.

As an aside, someone was feeding the media that pernicious lie for all those years. It started somewhere. The media just doesn't make sh*t up unless there's a paymaster behind it.

Posted by badanov 2015-02-16 17:20|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-02-16 17:20|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^^^ media does make shit up! @brian williams

Posted by chris 2015-02-16 20:43|| 2015-02-16 20:43|| Front Page Top

#10 The roooshians that sold it to them in the first place, right, Grom?

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-16 21:13|| 2015-02-16 21:13|| Front Page Top

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