According to Senator Rick Santorum, we have found quite a few.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/22/060622055545.07o4imol.html
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"Since 2003, Coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent," said an overview of the report unveiled by Senator Rick Santorum and Peter Hoekstra, head of the intelligence committee of the House of Representatives
Now contrary to popular belief, Weapons of Mass Destruction does not mean Weapons of MASSIVE Destruction, a WMD is a weapon that is Nuclear, Biological or Chemical in nature that targets in an indiscriminate manner.
It doesn't have to be a city destroying weapon capable of super-duper destruction.
Ok, that out of the way, I believe that there were much more "recent" weapons in Iraq, the only thing is we haven't found them yet, the weapons we have found are pre `91 weapons, and while Iraq was supposed to have destroyed these already, and wasn't supposed to have them in their possession, they are not the same weapons that the Administration but more importantly the Media "played up" to the American public.
These are not City breakers, they will not cause world wide pandemic, what they are are "tactical-terror" weapons, they are used in the shelling of Enemy positions and small towns and cities to cause fear and break the enemies will to fight.
These weapons, IMO, were justification enough for the invasion, regardless of what other factors may have been present.
It is also my Opinion that we went into Iraq the wrong way, what we did was akin to a local police or sheriffs office putting the exact date and time that they would hitting a local drug dealers house, And then knocking on the door for 15 min saying can we please come in while we hear the toilet flushing in the background and someone yelling "Just a minute!"
Any Recent WMD's that may have been in Iraq are either A) long gone or B) buried in the sand somewhere.
Ahh well I'm done for now, feel free to post any comments about this that you would like and I will try to get back to & respond to them as soon as I can.
These are WMDs and terror weapons, but not the ones that were used to push the war. Bush sold us a Big Mac and gave us a Chicken McNugget.
ReplyDeleteNot that they shouldn't be disposed of, of course.
It makes sense that Saddam would go looking for these type weapons (specifically nuclear) because that is the best deterrent to invasion to date. I agree about the delay on invasion. IF he had them, he had ample time to remove them. however, I've yet to see conclusive proof that he could obtain what it took to make a bomb, and certainly couldn't deliver it to a european city within 45 minutes. Part of what tipped me off to this (that the US had no evidence) was the language that Bush, Rummy, Powell and co used when they pushed this in the first place- there were a lot of may, could, and mights- lawyer-speak to cover their asses so they can say they didn't lie. I for one don't appreciate being treated like an idiot and opposed the reason for this war from the start. Not finding Osama has even further soured my attitude towards the ability of the fellows calling the shots.
Had they just said Saddam is a "genocidal cockmunch and we're gonna go get him while we're in the area" I'd have been much more receptive to it. At least that's honest.
The thing is I agree w/ you, I personally think they went about this thing completely the wrong way.
ReplyDeleteBut they way it was "sold" to the public was by using "scare tactics" and that was wrong, and the real reasons for going in were played down, mainly the humanitarian reasons and for violations of the `91 treaty.
That being said I personally don't think we should pull out untill the job is done, you might ask me "How long will that take"? and I would answer, I don't know, go ask Germany, Japan & Itally.
Now I know that is not really an answer and that we were mainly in those areas in an effort to combat comunists, but my answer still stands.