Dead Wrong!!!
"Dead Wrong" what a chilling report from the President's Commission on WMD! 1500 American soldiers are dead because we were "wrong"! Countless innocent Iraquis are dead because we were "wrong". Osama bin Laden is not dead because we were "wrong". We don't have a clue of who has WMD or who doesn't. That's "wrong".
Bush puts on his best Bernie Ebbers impression of denying any responsibility because he didn't know. Reminds 'ol Red Dog of the Hogan Heroes character, Sgt. Schultz "I know nothing". As I recall there were plenty of naysayers about the WMD program who pointed out the fuzzy logic, but this administration had already had its mind made up on invading Iraq. They questioned the intelligence that bin Laden was going to attack the U.S. with airplanes, but jumped all over the stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq and threw in a "mushroom cloud" scare into the American people. When you look at it now and know a little bit about the technology of a nuclear weapon and the delivery system it needs, doesn't it seem a bit ridiculous? The best technology they had was a SCUD Missle, that had the guidance system of a rock thrown into the air and could only travel about a 1000 miles on a good day.
A jury found Ebbers guilty of either lying about what he knew or too dumb to be the CEO of a company. It's a terrible analogy, to be sure, but in the Ebbers case; no one died, but he sure fooled a lot of people.
posted by Red Dog @ 5:02 PM
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2 Comments:
Wait a minute, Clinton, Gore, Kerry and a lot of other guys said the same things. When the troops were building Sadman sold or just shipped the WMD's to Syria or elsewhere. I saw somewhere on the Web that Iraqi missile parts (which everone said he didn't have) were showing up at recycling plants in Europe. Bush has been vindicated a good bit buy the elections there. You have your viewpoints but IMHO there are holes in them.
Thanks for your comments: It was the President's own commission. All other investigations have found no WMD's. The sad thing is that we relied on questionable intelligence then and there is no evidence that it has improved since then. We don't even know who is in our country because we don't guard the borders. 15 to 20 million illegal immigrants in our country today. Bush had his mind made up to attack Iraq and he used only the intelligence that supported his intent. A real democratic Iraq will be able to hold elections after our troops are gone.
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