Cheney is out of his mind

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by ecduzitgood

Where are the retractions (someone is stating their new opinion)? Any actual WMD is a fact. Does it have to be placed in front of you for it to actually exsist? How many WMD's had to be found for them to exsist? No matter the amount, any is proof of it's exsistence?
Think about it..6 months to hide or dispose of the weapons...give a drug dealer 6 minutes to hide his drugs before the cops come in. Do you think he could do it? The area (Iraq) is like a giant litterbox full of sand.
What about the WMD's we supplied/sold Iraq? Yeah; those did'nt exsist either. Think about it...does that make sense? I will gladly state a retraction if proven incorrect and have tried to be open minded. Hard hold in your hand evidence trumps someones words.

I may sound condescending but you still insist they never did exsist and say that WMD's were the reason for the war. It wasn't the sole reason for the war.

I am leaving now so when I return late Sunday I'll read any facts you may use as weapons to change my opinion.

I haven't insisted Saddam "never possessed WMDs." The hundreds of thousands of Kurds killed by gas in the 80s proves that he possessed them at one point. However, there is little to no proof he built up stockpiles after inspectors left in 1998. The lead UN inspector had confirmed 90-95% of Saddam's weapons were destroyed - along with the other 5-10% more than likely destroyed prior to inspections.

The US is capable of finding secret underground nuclear facilities in Iran, finding Saddam in a random hole on a farm and knowing when N. Korea is readying for new missile tests - you're telling me they couldn't track multiple entire warehouses worth of weapons being transported? Not to mention the machinery required to make those weapons. In that case, Saddam must also have done an excellent job making the weapon manufacturing locations look like they hadn't been used for years.

What were the other reasons for the Iraq war?
Saddam supporting terrorism? Bush's own CIA director stated that there was no qualified connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda. After the US invasion, the lack of a connection has been confirmed.

Then there's always the "well he tried to kill my daddy" reason.

The United States is not the world's police force. If the threat from Iraq was so severe, Bush should not have had any problem getting all of our Allies on board. I'm sure today, there are a lot of foreign leaders breathing a sigh of relief that they didn't believe the Bush administration's loosely strung together facts, fabricated information and inaccurate "intelligence".

There was absolutely no international gain by invading Iraq. We're no less at risk with Saddam out of power, than we were with him in power - if anything, we're more at risk.