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About 10 years ago, I didn't have much internet access to see arguments in the online political community. For those who did, how did conservatives defend GW after no WMDs were found in Iraq?
Ask liberals how they defended all the Democrats that voted in favor of the war.
Here's a popular Democrat's thoughts on it:
"In 1998, the United States also changed its underlying policy toward Iraq from containment to regime change and began to examine options to effect such a change, including support for Iraqi opposition leaders within the country and abroad. In the 4 years since the inspectors, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al-Qaida members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001.
"It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capability to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East which, as we know all too well, affects American security."
Prior to 2002, most national and international officials and experts believed that Iraq likely had research]programs and some stores of hidden chemical or biological weapons and maintained program to develop nuclear weapons
Your turn, that is, if you don't opt for the usual lefty skedaddle.
It is common knowledge(except for those blindly caught up in left wing propaganda, or the relatively uninformed - both groups overlapping) that the weapons were sent over the border to Syria in the run-up to the invasion forced by the mamby-pamby Democrats.
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Originally Posted by Harrier
"In 2006, former Iraqi general Georges Sada, second in command of the Iraqi Air Force who served under Saddam Hussein before he defected, wrote a comprehensive book, "Saddam's Secrets."
It details how the Iraqi Revolutionary Guard moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria in advance of the U.S.-led action to eliminate Hussein's WMD threat."
Remember how the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the MSM gleefully sounded the drumbeat of "Bush lied, people died" back in 2003-04 when few WMD was found following the disentegration of the Hussein regime in Iraq? Bush did not lie - no intelligence is ever perfect - but the fact is we didn't need that report to justify the removal of Saddam Hussein. We already knew that he had WMD - since after the Gulf War. U.N. Resolution 1441 required Saddam Hussein to cooperate with the U.N. weapons inspectors, account for every WMD in Iraq's possesion, and to discontinue production of any prohibited weapons. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This was the final resolution following at least ten similar ones dating back to the end of the Gulf War.
The U.N. inspectors were not there to "search" for WMD's - they knew that they were in the country - Iraqi officials were supposed to account for them. You will recall that the inspectors were hindered in their mission at every step. In a post 9/11 world - Saddam Hussein could not be allowed to continue thumbing his nose at the world and risk having those weapons fall into the hand of Muslim extremist groups such as al-Qaeda. Saddam Hussein refused to co-operate. The 4 months between passage of 1441 and the invasion of Iraq gave Hussein plenty of time to move his WMD stockpile to Syria. A senior Iraqi Air force officer confirms that this was done - as quoted above.
These weapons likely made it into Syria and now are at risk of falling into the hands of al Qaeda if Assad's regime falls. The liberals who were bent on interfering with President Bush's attempts to defend our national security post 9/11 for political reasons are why there was such a protracted buildup to the invasion - tipping our hand - and giving Saddam the opportunity to move his arsenal out and now place us in danger from beyond the grave.
About 10 years ago, I didn't have much internet access to see arguments in the online political community. For those who did, how did conservatives defend GW after no WMDs were found in Iraq?
It was not Conservatives, it was the Neo Cons, big government statist in Constitutional clothing.
About 10 years ago, I didn't have much internet access to see arguments in the online political community. For those who did, how did conservatives defend GW after no WMDs were found in Iraq?
About 10 years ago, I didn't have much internet access to see arguments in the online political community. For those who did, how did conservatives defend GW after no WMDs were found in Iraq?
Obama can explain how he used the same tactic to try to get involved in Syria...Remember, the chemical weapons?
By conservative, do you mean the brainwashed scum that skews the meaning of the word just as brainwashed liberals do today?
"Conservatives" or Republicans were simply defending their dear leaders actions, just as the Obamanoids do today with countless undeclared wars and drone strikes on civilians.
Republicans are not conservatives and Democrats are not truly liberals. Just because they call themselves something does not make it so.
Conservatives quite strongly deny there is global warming, so they might as will deny it's true that viable WMD were never found in Iraq.
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